Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!stc!root44!jgh
From: jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Fun with ignoreeof
Message-ID: <542@root44.co.uk>
Date: 4 Feb 88 09:46:39 GMT
References: <2248@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <2255@tekcrl.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: jgh@root44.UUCP (Jeremy G Harris)
Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England
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Keywords: kill ignoreeof alias
Summary: aliasing alias!

In article <2255@tekcrl.TEK.COM> eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller) writes:
>I just noticed that csh won't let me alias alias, or unalias.

CSH: alias alias hello
alias: Too dangerous to alias that.
CSH: alias "alias" hello
CSH: alias
hello: Command not found.
CSH: alias''
alias  hello
CSH: alias'' unalias hello
alias: Too dangerous to alias that.
CSH: alias'' "unalias" hello
CSH:

:-)

This works on Dynix (from Sequent, a 4.2 derivative).
It used to work on Version 7, also.

Have fun!
Jeremy
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Jeremy Harris			jgh@root.co.uk