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I received a number of replies to my query.  The following one does
work, as I am succesfully using it, and the second may also work as it
addresses the same issue. 

Thanx to all who replied.

-- From Darrell Kindred --The problem is that your .xinitrc is being interpreted by /bin/sh, not
/bin/csh.  If you make your .xinitrc executable, it should take care
of the problem.  Here's the relevant code from xinit.c (vec[0]
contains "/usr/gerry/.xinitrc", SHELL is "sh"):
	
    execvp (vec[0], vec);
    if (access (vec[0], R_OK) == 0) {
	vec--;				/* back it up to stuff shell in */
	vec[0] = SHELL;
	execvp (vec[0], vec);
    }

So if .xinitrc is executable, the first execvp will succeed, and
/bin/csh will be used to interpret .xinitrc (since you have the
#!/bin/csh line at the top).  The backup execvp just does a 
"sh /usr/gerry/.xinitrc".  The "#!/bin/csh" line must be ignored by
sh, since otherwise it could get into an infinite loop.


-- from Conrad Poelman --

My guess is that xinit is not using csh, but is using the Bourne shell
(sh) to run your .xinitrc file.  You can fix this by either changing
your .xinitrc to use sh-style if...then...elif...fi commands, or tell
xinit to use a csh by executing:
	exec xinit /bin/csh .xinitrc -- [...]
or
	exec xinit $SHELL .xinitrc -- [...]
in your startup script.  I don't think it looks at the #!/bin/csh -f you
have at the top of your .xinitrc file because it doesn't actually exec
the .xinitrc file, it just sources it.

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