shell programming challenge

[Don Wilde]

Resolved:

After a bit more work and lots of good suggestions, I came up with

xterm -e bash --rcfile .myrcfile -i -c "./ticktock && exec bash" &

It does everything I was expecting (assuming your regular .bashrc 
doesn't trash the things you set up in the first environment!)

Thanks, all!
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