Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: :On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT), Scott K. Ellis wrote: : :On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: : : What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? : : It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing

.csh_alias - Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-25 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:23:31 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote: :It is good because it contains csh/tcsh aliases, not bash aliases. A :slightly different beast. : :Ah. :Next question.why is it not named .csh_alias ? Well, most likely because the C Shell was the first to support

What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa=ls -a it would be useful. How is this any good? alias a alias alias loada 'source ~/.alias' alias loadalias loada alias

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa=ls -a it would be useful. How is this any good

Re: What good is the default .alias file?

1997-06-24 Thread Dave Cinege
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:05:25 -0400 (EDT), Scott K. Ellis wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: What good is the default .alias file in /etc/skel? It by default isn't, and I can see my way to execute the damn thing. If it was in the format: alias lsa=ls -a it would be useful. How