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From: jbw@bucsb.UUCP (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dumping
Summary: inews garbage
Message-ID: <2294@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 20:19:13 GMT
Reply-To: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Thanks to everyone who sent me a message.  I at least found what the
real problems was.  Here is how to trigger it:

	alias foo '`cat`'
	`foo`

This causes a subshell (or something) to dump core.  Originally, I
thought the problem was with `(cd)`.  I was under the illusion that
aliases were not expanded when sourcing a file or running a script.
That was not true.

In any case, it causes an error on every version of the csh that I
could try it on.  Does anyone know why?

Thanks.

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