Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!aoa!mark From: mark@aoa.UUCP (Mark Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: csh core dump (was: if-then-else in csh alias?) Message-ID: <406@aoa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 12:44:30 EDT Article-I.D.: aoa.406 Posted: Sun Aug 30 12:44:30 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 02:47:45 EDT References: <16128@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1376@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2133@umn-cs.UUCP> <1454@epimass.EPI.COM> Reply-To: mark@aoa.UUCP (Mark Reynolds) Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA Lines: 20 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: > > >> 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!) > On our VAX8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 the "first" cd command fails with a "cannot change to home directory"! Mark Reynolds ...!{wjh12,mit-vax}!biomed!aoa!mark ...!{harvard,ima}!bbn!aoa!mark