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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multiple commands on a CLI line
Message-ID: <8812062329.AA06891@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 88 23:29:57 GMT
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: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) Writes:
:In article <8812011846.AA04769@elysium.berkeley.edu> dillon@ELYSIUM.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>	Also, note that alias's are also searched for in ENV: ... the
:>command searching works like this:
:>
:>	(1) local alias?
:>	(2) Enviroment variable-alias?
:>	(3) Internal command?
:>	(4) External command?
:
:Excuse me if I'm misunderstanding this, but isn't that a big mistake?
:For example, the "less" program reads an environment variable called
:"LESS" to get default options.  Will setting ENV:LESS prevent the
:"less" program from running?  Perhaps you can play tricks taking
:advantage of the fact that case is significant in one case and not
:in the other, but that sounds awfully sleazy!

        Hmmm... you have a point there.  Maybe I should force aliases
in the enviroment to be named something else, like : alias_ instead
of just .

				-Matt