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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 22:03:36 +0000 ()
From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
To: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Makedev crash
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/dev/MAKEDEV EXTRACT

# Convert the last character of a tty name to a minor number.
ttyminor()
{
	case $unit in
	[0-9]) m=$unit;;
>ERR>   a) m=10;; b) m=11;; c) m=12;; d) m=13;; e) m=14;; f) m=15;; g) m=16;;
	h) m=17;; i) m=18;; j) m=19;; k) m=20;; l) m=21;; m) m=22;; n) m=23;;
	o) m=24;; p) m=25;; q) m=26;; r) m=27;; s) m=28;; t) m=29;; u) m=30;;
	v) m=31;;
	*) m="?";;
	esac
	echo $m
}
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/etc/shinit EXTRACT (sh shell, profile - ENV=shinit)

alias a="blah blah"
alias h="blah blah"
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can anyone tell me why alias "a" causes MAKEDEV to crash (where marked) 
yet alias "h" doesn't?  i'm not too smart when it comes to Makefiles or 
substitution priorities ...
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