Re: printing and .profile problems

[beamis@primenet.com (chris beamis)]

At 03:13 PM 8/7/96 +0200, bigl@tg.com.pl wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, chris beamis wrote:
>
>> 
>> 2. another problem, which I didn't have under Slackware, is using a .profile
>> in the user's home area. I have just one line in it, "alias 'lo'=exit" which
>> has always worked before but the lo commanded doesn't get recognized. I also
>> tried renaming the file to .login but still no luck. Any ideas?
>> 
>
>This line should look like:
>
>alias lo='exit'
>
>but NOT like:
>
>alias 'lo'=exit
>
>Did it work?!?!?!?!?
>
>
>Leszek Gerwatowski
>TG S.A
>Warsaw, Poland
>
>

Leszek,
  Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is the same .profile which I've
always used successfully with Slackware releases. I was going from memory
which is the only reason I got the quotes wrong. There is something else
going on causing bash or something to ignore my .profile.

Thanks anyway.

Chris Beamis