Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!mjr From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell... Message-ID: <1467@osiris.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 13:16:32 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.1467 Posted: Wed Nov 25 13:16:32 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:09:46 EST References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <1311@puff.wisc.edu> Organization: My Etch-A-Sketch runs X-Windows Lines: 21 Keywords: hot shi** consultants Summary: golly... Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:5097 comp.unix.wizards:5638 In article <1311@puff.wisc.edu>, kailhofe@puff.wisc.edu (Andrew D. Kailhofer) writes: ] ] It doesn't work because the cd is one the few things that are really don in ] the kernel (you won't find /bin/cd anywhere), and the kernel doesn't ] like to alias the things that it does. What it thins you are doing is ] trying to cd to somewhere, but when it starts to get the somewhere, it finds ] an unknown and unlookedfor '(', and barfs Oh, yeah ? Gee, that's one on me. Stupid kernel. How embarrassing :-P ] Andrew D. Kailhofer |507 VanVleck Hall | This third left ] Systems Consultant |Madison, WI 53706 | blank for reasons Consultant ? I sure won't hire you. --mjr(); -- "We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students." - Waldo "D.R." Dobbs.