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From: arp@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (John Gordos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 1.3 Shell Bug?
Keywords: Alias expansion; subcli
Message-ID: <718@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 1 Nov 88 21:10:54 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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	I have an alias in S:Shell-Startup 

		alias cp copy

	and copy is resident.    Works great.  However, if I

		run cp BigTextFile PRT:

	I get

		[CLI 2]
		cp: Command not Found

	or something similar.   Is this a bug?   Shouldn't the
	Shell expand the alias before RUN does his thing?   It
	would be much more useful if I didn't need to remember 
	to not alias things that I want to run in the background.

	John
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