Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihlpm!jmdavis From: jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 1.3 Shell Bug? Summary: why not "RUN SHELL cp filea fileb"? Message-ID: <2548@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Date: 3 Nov 88 18:31:47 GMT References: <5136@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 21 > > Complaints of a shell/cli problem with alias's like > > Alias cp copy > > run cp filea fileb > I don't have 1.3, but the problem here seems to be that RUN invokes the non-shell CLI while the shell is what translates the cp. So why not execute something like: run shell cp filea fileb What gives? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Davis ..!att!ihlpm!jmdavis char*p="char*p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}