sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (Igor Sobrado) :

> I believe that a brief description of the behaviour of each shell
> configuration file will help new users making changes on the files
> themselves.

Yes good idea. For [k|z|ba]sh(1) users, you should also talk about
global /etc/profile file; which is to be configured by the admin for
common values.

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