On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Michael Peters wrote:

>   Running several different applications that create shells of their own 
> (eg su and dt) i've found that they change your PATH from the one that 
> you have specified in either your .login or your rc files.  This is 

FWIW, using the `-l' option (or the older, undocumented '-' option) to su
will tell it to start a full login shell including sourcing system and user
startup files.  I'd imagine dt has something similar...

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