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From: eao@anumb.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
Message-ID: <137@anumb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 07:16:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 07:16:10 1987
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>
>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
>------

    
	no - cd is done in the shell itself.    Not the kernel.
	Well, of course, everything interesting is done in the kernel;
	but I think that in the sense you use it , shell is more appropriate.

					eric olson
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