David Greer ([log in to unmask]) wrote: ... : The following are my comments on the contents of /etc/profile as it is : distributed on MPE/iX C.50.00. These comments are personal and ... : > # COPYRIGHT (c) Hewlett-Packard Company 1992, All Rights Reserved. : > # Default system wide configuration file for the MPE/iX Shell and Utilities ... : > # set up the default path to include only the .2 utilities and the current : > # directory : > export PATH='/bin:.' Wait a minute...on Unix machines, it's generally strongly recommended that you *don't* have "." in the default path. (something about potential security holes) Does this mean that MPE/iX (Posix) isn't emulating Unix security holes too? :) In short: does HP *really* want to use that default PATH? : I don't find this a very good choice as the default shell prompt. (I started a separate thread for "shell prompt") : a lot more "cd" commands in the shell than I do "CHDIR" commands in : MPE, so I find that it becomes critical that I know my current : directory. Yes. I add the machine name to the prompt, as well. This is very important when using a workstation with multiple windows. : > export TZ=GMT0 : > Maybe it should default to PST8PDT? :) (where I suspect the largest percentage of HP3000s exist) Mostly, I agree with David's comments...thanks! Stan Sieler