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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unknown alias in ksh script problem.
Message-ID: <1500@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 89 16:07:10 GMT
References: <7010003@hpfcso.HP.COM> <1989Oct26.200808.16725@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <1989Oct26.200808.16725@rpi.edu>, tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:

|  The problem is not at all related to PATH.  As with any shell that
|  allows aliasing and/or function definition, the aliases and functions
|  are not passed to children.  

  You're right. I assumed the alias was in the $ENV file and that the
problem was elsewhere.
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bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon