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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: alias acess
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.233208.10884@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 23:32:08 GMT
- References: <980@rc1.vub.ac.be>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <980@rc1.vub.ac.be>, jcu@dec5.ulb.ac.be (Jean-Christophe Ury) writes:
-
- > I use ULTRIX V4.3.
- > I 've some aliases defined in my shell.I would access these aliases
- > via a C program. Is it possible.
-
- Short answer: no.
-
- Long answer: not without a nearly incredible amount of really really
- ugly, system- and shell-specific, kludgy, brittle code, and probably
- root priviliges as well. You would be much better off finding another
- way to solve whatever problem you're trying to solve.
-
- > email : jcu@134.184.80.3
-
- That's not really a valid mail address. The usual syntax for mail
- using numeric addresses would read jcu@[134.184.80.3] instead, and even
- that is usable only from Internet-connected machines, or the (rare?)
- other machine that actually does something sensible with numeric
- addresses.
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
-