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From: mtsu@blake.acs.washington.edu (Montana State)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Huh?  What's going on here?
Message-ID: <2935@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 89 05:43:53 GMT
References: <2917@blake.acs.washington.edu>
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In article <2917@blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu@blake.UUCP (Montana State) writes:
>Huh?  What's going on here?  I'm trying to set the shell variable x to
>the contents of the file /tmp/x, here's a script.
>
>mVAX II, Ultrix 2.3, /bin/csh
>
>
>Script started on Mon Jul 24 03:13:58 1989
>caesar # set
>argv	()
>cwd	/user1/local/src/libg++/tests
>history	200
>home	/
>notify	^G

Arrrgh!  I can't believe I did something this stupid!  That's what I get for
aliasing ls to ls -F .  That's what was aggravating, log into a different
account and it works beautifully.

For penance I shall eat section 1 of the manual set, with an extra copy of
csh(1) thrown in for good measure.





Dumb Dumb Dumb


Thanx for the help.

Jaye Mathisen
icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu