>Just in case my ignorance isn't already totally obvious, I have one more
>question for the list (Oh, list?).  Can anyone tell me why my prompt in
>xterms doesn't reflect the prompt in my .profile?  When I log in, I get a
>prompt like "jklowden@home.schemamania.org$", but every xterm starts off
>with "bash-2.04$ " until I issue ". .profile".  Which is sort of OK, but
>I'm sure it's also easy to fix, if one knows how.  

the latest bash (2.05) doesn't seem to read .profile.  the easy
solution is to add ". .profile" to the bottom of your .bashrc.

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