On Saturday 29 December 2001 19:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to get to alias's (pleural sp?) to work and am having a > problem. Here is what I put into /home/darklord/.bashrc: > > alias diablo2=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Diablo\ II/Game.exe > alias starcraft=winex /mnt/windows/Program\ > Files/Starcraft/starcraft.exe
> PS Program Files and Diablo II have blank spaces in them, so I had to > use the \ character, right? If I enter either of these commands "as is" > from a shell, they execute just fine... Instead of using the \ escape character, try encasing the whole thing in double quotes: alias diablo2=winex "/mnt/windows/Program Files/Diablo II/Game.exe" Sometimes one method works better than the other, dunno why -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn
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