RFC: alias and unalias command

[Ian Clatworthy]

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.