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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: (t)csh if query
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.191357.12276@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 19:13:57 GMT
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In article <34710@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (james
cloos) writes:
|> What I tried is:
|> 
|> 	if ( ($HOSTTYPE)=sun3 && ($TERM)=sun ) X11

	if ($HOSTTYPE == sun3 && $TERM == sun) then
		X11
	endif

  Note that aliases won't work in the one-line if statement format, you
have
to use the multiple-line format.

  This is documented quite extensively in the man page.  RTFM.

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