[This message has also been posted.] Okay, people pointed out to me that .bash_profile isn't *supposed* to execute in an xterm unless a special flag is used. Fine.
On further investigation, .bashrc *is* executing. And I get this output: </home/carlf>$ echo $PATH (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/carlf/bin) . . . so why won't the xterm execute files in /home/carlf/bin unless I prepend an explicit path to them? I have a script, /home/carlf/bin/newsguy, but typing just "newsguy" get me "command not found", although ~carlf/bin/newsguy works fine. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun