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From: waw5805@isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis )
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Subject: Re: help..with alias command ?
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Date: 4 Dec 90 21:03:19 GMT
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>Article 5626 of comp.sys.amiga:
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>From: denny@pnet01.cts.com (Dennis Anderson)
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>Subject: Re: help..with alias command ?
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>When in a shell type ASSIGN and hit the return button. Does the word Utilities
>show up thereby indicating that it is assigned? I think that is your problem
>you can't use the colon (:) after the word utilities unless utilities is
>assigned. You should probably change the line to something like               
>alias lharc sys:utilities/archivers/lharc or substitute DH0: or DF0: for sys:
>if those are apropriate. Hope this helps.
>                                                   Dennis Anderson

Maybe I'm not making myself clear. The lharc executable is on a floppy
with the complete path of Utilities:Archivers/lharc. What is supposed to
happen ( which is what happens with the 'alias zoo
Utilities:Archivers/Zoo/zoo' and 'alias arc Utilities:Archivers/arc' aliases 
set up in the same shell-startup file ) is that I get prompted for a
disk with the volume name 'Utilities', I insert the disk, and the
command gets executed. I'm not expecting my sys:Utilities/ directory to
be searched. Again, this works for the zoo, arc, pkax, and zip aliases
set up in exactly the same way. I don't understand why it doesn't work
for the lharc one. Also, when I type 'alias' with no parameters to see
my alias list the lharc alias isn't there ( which obviously is because
it is not being set up). Any clues?