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From: kailhofe@puff.wisc.edu (Andrew D. Kailhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
Message-ID: <1311@puff.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 03:53:35 EST
Article-I.D.: puff.1311
Posted: Tue Nov 24 03:53:35 1987
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References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP>
Reply-To: kailhofe@puff.WISC.EDU (Andrew D. Kailhofer)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: Brain dead system...
Summary: Heh!  DOS this isn't!
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In article <279@caus-dp.UUCP> marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>We are running Xenix Revision 3.4 from Intel and the Bourne shell
>won't let us do things like the following...
>
[ src deleted ]
>
>The program bombs at the cd() statment and returns the statment:
>-sh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
>
>Any ideas on whats wrong and what might be done in another method to
>correct the problem that we seem to be having? We have tested this

It doesn't work because the cd is one the few things that are really don in
the kernel (you won't find /bin/cd anywhere), and the kernel doesn't
like to alias the things that it does.  What it thins you are doing is
trying to cd to somewhere, but when it starts to get the somewhere, it finds
an unknown and unlookedfor '(', and barfs
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