jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (01/17/91)
It seems likely to me that your aliases are not taking effect when you run commands from inside "less" or via rsh because your .cshrc file is set up only to define the aliases in an interactive shell, and the shells that are spawned by less and by rsh are not interactive. That would be my first guess. My second guess is that less is using /bin/sh to execute commands instead of your SHELL, but that would not account for the problems you are having with rsh. My third guess is that less is using "/bin/csh -f" to prevent the execution of your .cshrc file. Once again, however, that would not explain the problems you are having with rsh. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710