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Korn shell alias question

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From: Macbeth Ylr
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 02:30
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I currently have csh aliases of the form 

alias laser 'ptroff -macc -t \!* | lpr'

to send roff'ed output to a laser printer by typing 

laser filename

Does anyone know how to achieve an equivalent alias under ksh?

Thanks
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From: bi38@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Macbeth Ylr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Korn shell alias question
Keywords: korn, alias
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Date: 30 Mar 89 02:30:19 GMT
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