Short explanation of bash dotfiles 
[ambient page  updated  11 Oct 05]
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## version 2.05b for Red Hat Fedora 
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## supposedly _this_ file is read _only_ at login...
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## Note: .bashenv and .bash_login are obsolete
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## Now only .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bashlogout
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## ... and ~/.inputrc = individual readline initialization file
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## (and, of course, .bash_history
  if [ -r ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi  ## does not exist...
## take these out of ~/.bashrc, and just here, to be read _once_
	 export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/python_lib:$HOME/tmp  ## no sys-wide PYTHONPATH
	 export PYTHONSTARTUP=$HOME/.pythonrc.py     
	 export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
	 export PRINTER='octagon'
	 export PERL5LIB=$HOME/perl_lib:$HOME/tmp
	 export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
	 export VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs
	 export LC_COLLATE=C    ## 29 Jan 05	
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## the following should be in ~/.bashrc
	 export PS1="\w $ "   ## prompt = just directory ... 25 Aug 2004
	 export HISTFILESIZE=2000
	 export HISTSIZE=2000
	 export REPLYTO="garrett@math.umn.edu" ## read by emacs?
	 export HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth"
	 umask 077
	 alias xterm="xterm -sb -fg LightGray -bg SlateGray"
	 alias dvips="dvips -t letter"
	 alias rm="rm -i"
	 alias gs="gs -sDEVICE=x11" ## Thanks to mike ulrich...!
	 alias emacs="emacs -geometry 85x48+420+340"
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