turner@smart.sps.mot.com (Robert Turner) (10/17/90)
I have a program called "next". I would like to be able to invoke it
from an Aegis window. The problem is that "next" is an Aegis shell
builtin (sort of). Even when "next" can be found in my command search
rules, by typing "next" at the "$" prompt, nothing happens. If I
fully qualify the program, /usr/local/bin/next, the program works.
Limitations:
I don't want to run a C Shell.
I don't want to change the name of the program.
I don't want multiple copies of the program.
Any suggestions?
Robert
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primary political office under a constitutional government." Mortimer Adlerkrowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (10/19/90)
With the limitations you give, there is no solution. The Aegis shell will always find
a reserved word ("next") before it finds a file in your search path.
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(in order of decreasing preference)nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (10/20/90)
In article <9010191547.AA20147@richter.mit.edu> krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes: >With the limitations you give, there is no solution. The Aegis shell will always find >a reserved word ("next") before it finds a file in your search path. I don't have the original message here, but I can guess. It is strange that "next" is caught as a reserved keyword. Once upon a time all of the keywords were reserved all of the time. I fixed them (when I was at Apollo, obviously) to that things like "then" and "else" were only active when you were actually in an "if" construct. I don't recall why "next" didn't make it into that category. Of course some people might consider being valid sometimes and not others to be a bug too, but what can you do? -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.