[Info-vax] preferences APIs (Re: OpenVMS Development Annoyances)

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/21/19 6:10 PM, Lorin Ricker wrote:
> On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 6:02:08 AM UTC-8, John Reagan wrote:
>> ...
>> On my Linux box, I always get confused with the difference in .profile, .bashrc, and .bash_profile.
>> ...
> 
> Join the club... Methinks that, except in the hearts and minds of a few rabid Unix gurus, it's devolved to a set of distinctions without a difference.  Pax, my Unix friends.  Although (AFAIR) I've got cross-references in my .profile and .bash_profile to .bashrc, I largely make use of and rely on .bashrc for most of my session setup.  I'm ignorant/unappreciative of the nuances, but they don't seem to matter much, at least for me.
> 

BASH is a Linux thing, not a Unix thing.  Real Unix "gurus" use
a real Unix shell like "The Bourne Shell", "The C_Shell" and for
later aficionados "The Korn Shell".

:-)

bill