Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!amdahl!JUTS!ked01 From: ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: help..with alias command ? Keywords: alias Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 08:21:11 GMT References: <1990Nov27.155249.3829@isc.rit.edu> Reply-To: ked01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 20 In article <1990Nov27.155249.3829@isc.rit.edu> waw5805@isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis ) writes: > > I have a strange problem with alias: I have the following line in my > shell-startup file: > "alias lharc Utilities:Archivers/lharc". > For some strange reason this alias is not getting set up. All the other Assuming you do have Utilities: assigned, it may be an ancient bug I ran into a long time ago. That being that if the file containing your aliases has tab chars in it, aliases won't get processed correctly. I've no idea if this ever got fixed or not. /kim -- UUCP: ked01@juts.ccc.amdahl.com DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25