barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) (12/25/90)
Here's a bug in the Ultrix 4.0 (RISC) csh. Make a single command
line executing 5 (or more) aliases on it. On a Sun, the 5 aliases execute.
On a DECstation, you get the error message "Alias loop."
Example:
% alias a "/bin/echo a"
% alias b "/bin/echo b"
% alias c "/bin/echo c"
% alias d "/bin/echo d"
% alias e "/bin/echo e"
% a; b; c; d; e
Alias loop.
Yeah, I'll submit an SPR.
Dan
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Dan Barrett writes: > Alias loop. Yeah, I'll submit an SPR. It's been done a while ago and there is an available fix from DEC, ask your support if you have and/or are entitled to one. I am "bemused" (and NOT amused) as to why DEC can't do what Sun does -- publish to all its supported customers a (monthly) "Software technical bulletin" and a "Customer Distributed BugsList". After all, that type of information reaches DEC support, and it is rather annoying to fight with a bug only to hear support say, when you get them, oh yes we knew about this from a while ago, we'll send you the fix now that you REALLY need it. But then automatic distribution is not yet DEC's forte. We are still to receive our official distribution of 4.0 with docs (we're at 4.1. Figure that out now).
iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) (12/28/90)
In article <7264@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > > Here's a bug in the Ultrix 4.0 (RISC) csh. Make a single command >line executing 5 (or more) aliases on it. On a Sun, the 5 aliases execute. >On a DECstation, you get the error message "Alias loop." It fails under Ultrix 4.1 csh and tcsh v5.20.01. Maybe it's something generic to the BSD 4.3 csh (which tcsh is based on)? Mike Iglesias University of California, Irvine Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu BITNET: iglesias@uci uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias