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From: leiby@masscomp.UUCP (Mike Leibensperger)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: csh aliases
Message-ID: <637@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 18:16:26 EST
Article-I.D.: masscomp.637
Posted: Mon Mar 11 18:16:26 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 03:34:18 EST
References: <630@mako.UUCP>
Reply-To: leiby@masscomp.UUCP (Mike Leibensperger)
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Summary: Down with Feeping Creaturism!

In article <630@mako.UUCP> glenm@mako.UUCP (Glen McCluskey) writes:
>Has anyone thought of modifying the C shell to allow aliases on
>other than the first word of each command?  For example, assuming
>a new alias command called ``nalias'', one might say:
>
>	% nalias t '/etc/termcap'
>	% more t

Indeed, someone has.  Try this:

	% set t=/etc/termcap
	% more $t

Aren't you the guy who posted an article a while back saying how nify
COBOL-like syntax was?

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Mike Leibensperger
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