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From: pett@cgl.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen%CGL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mark Williams C: some findings...
Message-ID: <10440@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 22:49:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 22:49:32 1987
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In article <879@sask.UUCP> long@sask.UUCP (Warren Long) writes:
>Comment on MSH:  Has anyone gotten the aliasing to work? I can type
>in their example 'set in .cmd lc="ls -l"', and it works just fine.  But
>when I try to do something more useful, I can't get it to work.
>For example, 'set in .cmd cds="cd d:\sw"', does not result in my
>CD-ing to the appropriate directory.  Can someone offer a hint??

	I spent a long time trying to get a csh-like pushd/popd alias to
work and concluded that msh must execute these aliases in a subshell, leaving
the parent shell unaffected.  About the best you can do if you have an
unbearably long path that you frequently type is to set a shell variable
equal to it (in, say, .profile) and just say "cd $x", for example.

				Eric Pettersen
				UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
				pett@cgl.ucsf.edu or ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pett