Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon 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 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 22 : 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