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From: " steve  howe" <un_x@hotmail.com>
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Subject: profile probs
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oops!  my previous post was 1/2 deleted because i used periods as
line seperators in a perl/www based emailer - sorry.
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anyway ...  /etc/profile -> any ordinary variables used remain in a
users environment and must be explicitly "unset" in /etc/profile
to avoid this.  i don't think this should be! (2.1.5)
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~/.profile -> the first alias (only verified as first non-comment
line) will never work, resulting in a "alias: not found" error.
although it will show if the "alias" command is issued.  even if
you try to re-alias that 1st alias in ~/.profile, nothing
changes, and the alias still does not work.
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has this been fixed?  or am i being stupid here?
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thanks.

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