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