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From: joel@intelisc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dump  (was: if-then-else in csh alias?)
Message-ID: <183@intelisc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 11:48:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: intelisc.183
Posted: Tue Sep  1 11:48:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 01:42:27 EDT
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Reply-To: joel@intelisc.UUCP (Joel Clark)
Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR
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Keywords: csh core dump

In article <1454@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <2133@umn-cs.UUCP> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>>on the side, this dumps core on an Encore running UMAX 4.2:
>>
>>	mkdir x
>>	mkdir y
>I think you meant "mkdir x/y" here.
>>	set home=x/y	# not absolute!
>>	cd
>>	cd ../..	# reference to $home?
>>	***BOOM***
>
>This core dumps csh on a Masscomp running RTU v3.1 also.
>>(Just tried it on our vanilla [for now] 4.3 VAX - another core dump!)

I just tried it on a Intel 310/286 box with Xenix 3.4 with csh.......
  It worked OK there putting me back in the directory I started from.
	mkdir x x/y
	set home=x/y
	cd ..
	cd
  Causes the error message:   'x/y: No such file or directory'

What so hard about that?


Joel Clark
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