Cygnus shell--something I just learned

[Paul Johnson]

I made changes in my cygnus setup in the .bashrc file and the changes
showed up in the cygnus terminal, but the swarm terminal ignored them. 
It was most puzzling to me.

I found that happened because swarm's terminal is started by "bash
--login", and the login option causes bash to look in .bash_profile, not
.bashrc.  Hence to make the login shell parse through .bashrc, I had to
do that trick in .bash_profile that checks to see if .bashrc exists and
if it does it loads it.  With that taken care of, I can have color coded
output from ls and some nice aliases.

Now I have a follow up question about the Cygnus shell. On my Nt system,
the cygnus shell is stuck at a fixed size. I can't make it as big as the
screen.  I think I recall somebody mentioned there was a way around
this, or a way to make shift-pgup/down work to scroll in there.  Is
there?

In the process of teaching my course, I'm getting some more student
feedback about the FAQ and so there are quite a few changes going on.

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
Lawrence, Kansas 66045                FAX: (785) 864-5700

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