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- From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: Login, modem, and alias questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.015318.187943@jrh.uucp>
- Keywords: login,alias,modem
- Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario
- References: <lfh1q3INNi07@notrees.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 01:53:18 GMT
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- In article <lfh1q3INNi07@notrees.cs.utexas.edu> travis@cs.utexas.edu (Travis Hildebrand) writes:
- >When I type login at a korn shell prompt (ksh), I seem to get some
- >garbage on the screen and the terminal locks up. Is this a know bug?
- >Is there a fix?
-
- Login is a program called by the getty program to authenticate a user
- logging into the system and to initialize a new enviroment for them to
- use during the session. It is is not meant to be run from the command
- line. Don't run it ... this is not a bug.
-
- >
- >Is there a program available to allow me to access a modem to dialout?
- >If so, where could I obtain such a program?
-
- Try "cu", "tip", or "ate".
-
- >
- >Thirdly, in Korn Shell, there is support for alias's. How does one go
- >about defining an alias under korn shell. I am familiar with it under
- >csh. (ie - alias dir 'ls -la'). How would you do this under ksh?
-
- Use alias ls='ls -la'.
-
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