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From: yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: `which' in csh/Ultrix 4.1
Message-ID: <5946@iron6.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 17:02:38 GMT
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gandalf@csli.Stanford.EDU (Juergen Wagner) writes:

>What seemed to be a little strange, however, was how the built-in
>"which" behaved when I tried it on some well-known programs:

The which in tcsh & csh is faulty, causing much confusion and wasted time. 
The tcsh people are aware of this & it sounds like they will fix it in a 
future release. I think tcsh currently uses the original csh code - so
bugs, as well as features, were inherited.  

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