Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:25:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD faster than light? Message-ID: <19980625122542.G18784@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199806250235.VAA16819@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 09:35:24PM -0500 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199806250235.VAA16819@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Wednesday, 24 June 1998 at 21:35:24 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> Greg Lehey writes:
>> On Wednesday, 24 June 1998 at 20:12:27 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
>>> What's "l"?
>>>
>>> n4hhe: {526} time l -rt Mail|wc
>>> l: Command not found.
>>> 0 0 0
>>> n4hhe: {527}
>>
>> An alias for "ls -lL".
>
> n4hhe: {550} time l
> l: Command not found.
> 0.0u 0.0s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> n4hhe: {551} alias l
> ls -lL
> n4hhe: {552}
>
> Maybe my failure provides some clue. The alias was manually entered.
> Also tried putting it in ~/.cshrc
>
> Am I simply too tired to grok why time won't execute an alias on my
> 2.2.6 system and Greg's (probably -current) does?
This may be a difference between bash and csh.
> Ooh! I see pppd just got a workover in -stable. Think I need to go play
> with it. Maybe dial-on-demand has been added!
I consider that unlikely. It's been there all the time.
Greg
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