Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!masscomp!leiby 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) Distribution: net Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA Lines: 20 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? -- Mike Leibensperger Masscomp; 1 Technology Park; Westford, MA 01886 {decvax,harpo,tektronix}!masscomp!leiby