UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

My UNIX SA requires that we start in CSH. I like to use KSH because most of my experience is in that shell. I added ksh to the end of my .login script which does take me into KSH but I would like to automatically execute my .profile to setup my aliases.

I cannot use a .shell file because I need to execute other scripts in my .login that do not run in ksh.

I did not understand what you meant by "I cannot use a .shell file ". But if I understand your problem consider this:

The man says:
"The shell first reads commands from the /etc/profile file, and then from either the .profile file in the current directory or from the $HOME/.profile file, if either file exists. Next, the shell reads commands from the file named by performing parameter substitution on the value of the ENV environment variable, if the file exists."

Could you put your profile name into ENV variable and then run ksh?

setenv ENV myprofile
ksh