[843] in Athena Bugs
new default dot files: mail alias loses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Wed Sep 7 21:20:23 1988
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 88 21:19:36 EDT
From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Errors-To: <henry@GARP.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
/usr/athena/lib/init/aliases:# Aliases dealing with mail
/usr/athena/lib/init/aliases:alias mail 'Mail'
/usr/athena/lib/init/aliases:alias Mail 'more /usr/prototype_user/README.mail'
these lose when you type
% mail user1 user2@foo etc
because the alias expands to
more /usr/prototype_user/README.mail user1 user2@foo etc
The user will see the message, and then a bunch of messages of the
order "user1: file not found", ...
-- Henry
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