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John F Stoffel writes:
 > I'm having a problem with VM and using the | command to send a mail
 > message in a folder to the printer.  The command I am using is 'xroff'
 > which is and alias for the command 'lpr -Pxroff', which can be found
 > in the file ~/.alias, which is loaded by ~/.cshrc.  The pipe command
 > works fine from the main input folder of vm, but whenever I visit
 > another folder and try to print out a message, I get the following
 > error:
 > 
 > .alias: No such file or directory
 > lpr: stdin empty input file

My guess is that you "source .alias" instead of "source
~/.alias", and the relative pathname lookup fails.  Your .cshrc
needs to be able to work from any directory, so you should use
full pathnames to files.