a couple of questions

[utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!salkind]

1) To run vms commands from csh, use the vms command.  Usage:
	vms 'dcl-command'
   It is usually best to put everything in single quotes so the DCL special
   characters won't be interpreted by csh.  Note you don't inherit
   your original process logical name table.

2) login.csh commands not being executed: check that the process logical name
   HOME is defined as a Unix style pathname.  If it is and things still aren't
   working right, you are probably not invoking csh as a login shell.  Check
   the bin:csh.com file and make sure you see something like
	$ c := $bin:csh -csh

						Lou Salkind