[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[AEF]

On Jan 28, 6:12 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 10:15 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>
>
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> > In article <bd8d2755-bb5f-4705-af3a-3af60797b... at r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
> >         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > > On Jan 27, 9:56 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >> AEF wrote:
> > >> > On Jan 27, 12:13 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >> In article <19dfe02a-d7a7-4d0c-be27-1c4ba069a... at f18g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
> > >> >>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
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> > >> >>> On Jan 27, 10:14 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> > >> >>> wrote:
> > >> >>>> AEF wrote:
> > >> >>>>> On Jan 26, 10:16 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >>>>>> In article <342d9c74-0b26-4c4b-9dd2-527d08958... at o36g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>> On Jan 24, 3:59 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >>>>>>>> In article <5288d49e-e43a-463e-a02c-bffcf1393... at o4g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>>>> On Jan 23, 9:38 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>> In article <05b548fd-8d1f-48c9-80c4-777bf5f6c... at q35g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 22, 8:41 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>> In article <abd32391-46d6-49e4-aa1c-58d74dcc7... at p2g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>         AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jan 22, 3:31 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> In article <CKqdnel_5rWYS-XUnZ2dnUVZ_v_in... at giganews.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>         "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In article <0005d0dd$0$2088$c3e8... at news.astraweb.com>,
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
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> > > bash-3.00$ man -k "copy files"
> > > /usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory
> > > bash-3.00$
>
> > How many people need to tell you that the apropos db is usually not built by
> > default to allow for the addition of local commands.  It took all of about
> > 15 seconds to find the command for Solaris to build that using Google.

So you can't add local commands afterwards? OK, I just read Bill
Pechter's post.

>
> Two. :=)
> [...]

> > And, incase tou haven't figured it out yet, yes, "apropos" is an alias
> > for "man -k".
>
> Yes, but I find it strange that you don't see that in some
> circumstances (don't have time right now to produce an example).

bash-3.00$ history 1
  533  history 1
bash-3.00$ alias history
bash: alias: history: not found
bash-3.00$ exit
afeldman at nygendev01:$ alias history
history='fc -l'
afeldman at nygendev01:$

So why does the alias disappear when I start bash, but still work?

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AEF