On 21 Apr 2004 at 17:53, freeman wrote:
> I'm running Bering 1.2 Release.
>
> I have created a large number of aliases within /etc/profile and they
> mostly work. However some of them do not get recognized as valid in that
when
> I enter a valid alias at the shell. For example:
> m16
> I get the response:
> m16: not found
>
> However when I enter:
> alias m16
> it tells me:
> alias m16=mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/16 ; cd /mnt/16
>
> so it should work?!
>
> I've sought on the net for info about aliases and found nothing
> indicating a limitation on their number or collective size.
I had a similar problem recently and it turned out the alias was being
invoked but the command it was running was issuing the 'not found' error.
What happens if you type
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/16 ; cd /mnt/16
at a shell prompt?
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