Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!mmdf
From: kvancamp@ardec.arpa (Ken Van Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  1.3 Shell Bug?
Message-ID: <5136@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 Nov 88 16:01:40 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
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John A. Gordos writes:

 >	Is this a bug?   Shouldn't the
 >	Shell expand the alias before RUN does his thing?

Consider this example:

  alias dir ls
  cp dir df1:

By your arguments, the 'cp' command would copy the file "ls" instead of the
"dir" file I wanted to copy.  The answer is, alias only works on the first
word of a command line, not on arguments that follow.

                            --Ken Van Camp