gnome terminal: start up with command?

[chris chinook atd ucar EDU (Chris Webster)]

I'd like the "saved" terminal sessions to come up with a command issued.  In
the old days I would have had a line in my .xinitrc:
 
xterm blah blah -e cu -p port4 dir
 
 
Where the "-e ..." is what I'm looking for.

--Chris

      Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?