Another bug in Ultrix 4.0 csh

Mike Iglesias iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu
Fri Dec 28 04:38:46 AEST 1990


In article <7264 at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett at 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
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