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From: waw5805@isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: help..with alias command ?
Keywords: alias
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.210832.3025@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 21:08:32 GMT
References: <Nov.22.18.25.50.1990.18822@pilot.njin.net> <1990Nov27.155249.3829@isc.rit.edu> <bd5G02M0037C01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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>> 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.

Ah, something to go on. I'll check that tab character theory out....