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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Another bug in Ultrix 4.0 csh
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Date: 27 Dec 90 17:38:46 GMT
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In article <7264@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
>
>	Here's a bug in the Ultrix 4.0 (RISC) csh.  Make a single command
>line executing 5 (or more) aliases on it.  On a Sun, the 5 aliases execute.
>On a DECstation, you get the error message "Alias loop."

It fails under Ultrix 4.1 csh and tcsh v5.20.01. Maybe it's something
generic to the BSD 4.3 csh (which tcsh is based on)?


Mike Iglesias
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