ksh - how do you keep aliases permanent?

[Bob Daniel]

In article <1991Mar11.041751.18032 at cbnews.att.com> lvc at cbnews.att.com (lawrence.v.cipriani) writes:
>In article <544 at genco.bungi.com> rad at genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes:
>>When defining aliases, is there a way to keep them permanent as they are defined
>>rather than inserting them directly into .profile?  If I have to, I'll write

>I guess I'm not entirely certain what you mean by "keep them permanent."
>If you want those aliases and functions accessible to sub-shells try this:
>export and define a variable called ENV in .profile; $ENV is the name of
>an environment file ksh will automatically "dot" after .profile when you
>login.  You do not have to say . $ENV in your .profile, it is redundant
>[at login].

Whenever setting up aliases, they are gone when I log out.  I want to keep
aliases permanent for the next time I login.