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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: Other 4DOS Bugs?
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Date: 7 Jul 90 18:25:53 GMT
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In article <1990Jul7.151214.3753@mlb.semi.harris.com>,
routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622) writes:
>I just downloaded 4DOS 3.01a from the net about four days ago.
[  ]
>secondary shells do not receive the aliases from the primary shell.  At

With swapping off, aliases do not get inherited. This is not easily
found in the documentation, but there is a simple workaround. The
variable %_shell tells you the number of the shell you are in. If
you are in a secondary shell with no swapping, this is set to 99.

So, in 4start.bat, put the line

if "%_shell" == "99" alias /r [your alias file name]

Richard Stanton
pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu