On 10/27/15 12:45 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:


If OS X does not use $HOME/.profile to initialize the environment of programs
(even in the graphical enviroment), that seems to me to be a serious
bug. 
Aparently it is not.

According to <http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/gs/node153.html>, .profile is bash-specific. tcsh has a different set of login/session initialization files.

-pd