[mturmon]

I've solved the configs-in-other-shells problem by writing a translator that sources the target config file, and then exports the needed variables in their desired syntax for my shell of choice. Simple example (config in csh, my language of choice was bash):

   jsoc_mach=`csh -f -c 'source /home/jsoc/.setJSOCenv && echo $JSOC_MACHINE'`

It could be abstracted farther.

Still a pain point, though.