RFC: alias and unalias command
Ian Clatworthy
ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Tue Feb 5 08:42:35 GMT 2008
Martin Pool wrote:
>> | I'd agree. I believe (not sure) that = is hard to put on the command
>> | line in Windows?
>> |
>> Why you think so?
>
> I don't have any specific evidence, just a vague recollection that =
> is sometimes changed to a space by the Windows shell. (Which sounds
> bizarre, but there's a lot of strangeness in that area.) If I am
> incorrect and it's not a problem, that's great.
>
It was certainly once a problem in early versions of DOS. The Perl
command line parsing library I used extensively back then explicitly
supported x:y to mean x=y for 'dictionary' options for precisely that
reason.
It may well be fixed by now.
Ian C.
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