ded@aplvax.UUCP (09/13/84)
Thanks to Mike Baldwin (yes, I do remember you), et al, who responded to my question concerning invocation of the Bourne shell. This was the first (and hopefully last) time I ever encountered use of a command as one of the arguments. For anyone who is curious, in order to invoke sh so that it automatically reads commands from the file ".profile", the first character of the command name must be a '-'. So I can do a "ln /bin/sh -sh" and be on my merry way. Well, sort of. Curiously enough, this only works when I am already in my home directory or have a copy of .profile in my current directory. In other words, "-sh" won't search anywhere other than the current directory for a file named ".profile" (which ain't as advertised). -- Don Davis JHU/APL ...decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!ded ...rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!ded