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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  1.3 Shell Bug?
Message-ID: <729@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 7 Nov 88 13:19:32 GMT
References: <5136@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst (kdebugger))
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <5136@louie.udel.EDU> kvancamp@ardec.arpa (Ken Van Camp) writes:
>John A. Gordos writes:
> >	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.

In my opinion the RUN command should use the shell aliases.
That is, RUN should start a shell/CLI whether the parent process
is a shell/CLI and the shell should pass its aliases to such a
subshell.

				Michael van Elst

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