Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!husc6!yale!spolsky From: spolsky@Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Uncle, aliases, pushing to DOS Message-ID: <38309@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 18:08:49 GMT Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky@yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 15 Thanks to Jack Morrison for a nifty package, unfortunately, I have encountered two glitches that make in not-quite-usable: -- every time I edit the aliases file I get "Bad alias file" and the program gives up. I think this is because my editor (I tried edlin and sidekick) is putting in ^Z's. (any suggestions?) -- I can "push to dos" and start up a new command.com quite successfully but then I can't exit back to my original program. Is there any workaround to get this to work? what's going wrong? Joel Spolsky bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky Yale University arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!!"