Re: printing and .profile problems
Chris,
I had the same problem with my profile. My work around
was editing (creating?) the .bash_profile file. At least I think that's
it, I'm at school now. It's just like .profile , but renamed to confuse
us ! Good luck.
Mike.
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, chris beamis wrote:
> >> 2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile
> >> in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, "alias 'lo'=exit" which
> >> has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also
> >> tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas?
>
> Leszek,
> Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is the same .profile which I've
> always used successfully with Slackware releases. I was going from memory
> which is the only reason I got the quotes wrong. There is something else
> going on causing bash or something to ignore my .profile.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> Chris Beamis
>
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