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From: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 4dos alias problem/questions
Summary: no backquotes in file
Message-ID: <1544@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 13:43:09 GMT
References: <5190092@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <5190092@hplsla.HP.COM> kens@hplsla.HP.COM (Ken Snyder) writes:
>
>   I just downloaded and installed 4DOS 3.0 on my system after reading all
>the nice things many folks had to say about it on the net.  I'm having a
>strange problem with the alias function that I hope someone can shed some
>light on.
[ some stuff deleted]
>alias cpd `find . | cpio -plmv`    { using MKS toolkit unix commands }
>
>the message I received was:
>
>   "cpd find . | cpio -plmv" is not an alias  (the doublequotes are theirs)
>

I am using 4dos 3.01a right now, and when I entered the alias you described
above from the command line, it didn't complain.  I also didn't see anything
in the documentation that referenced a change in this area from 3.0 to 3.01.

One other thing to note:  The documentation describing alias does say that
you need to use backquotes to delimit the alias (as you did above) when 
this is entered from the command line.  It also says however, that you 
should NOT use them when putting that alias in a file to be read by
the alias/r command.  It doesn't say what will happen if you do ....

It wasn't clear from your example whether you had backquotes in the file or
not -- you might try changing this.  I'm not sure why you had a problem
entering it from the command line, I typed it in without a problem there.

good luck,
bob
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Bob Robison	- Southwest Research Institute, Electromagnetics Div.
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