From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 20:01:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29867 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29858 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA15242; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:25:45 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA03901; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:25:43 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980625122542.G18784@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:25:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: FreeBSD faster than light? References: <199806250235.VAA16819@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806250235.VAA16819@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 09:35:24PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message