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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Alias bug
Message-ID: <732@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 89 03:23:27 GMT
Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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I found a bug in alias.  If you alias a command which matches the first
characters of another alias, the first alias will be deleted.  For example,
if you do:

alias exit endcli
alias ex execute []

the first alias 'exit' will go away.  However, if you do

alias ex execute []
alias exit endcli

it will work fine.  It's only a minor annoyance, but it could confuse users
(it had me baffled for about 10 minutes).

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-- Dan Howell  <ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com>  <...!(pyramid|ucbvax)!ucsbcsl!
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