csh command substitution brain damage

[chris at umcp-cs.UUCP]

While I won't argue that it's a ``good thing'', the C shell was
apparently *designed* to give the ``ambiguous'' message.  Any time
globbing produces more than one word for what might be argv[0],
the C shell gives you the ``ambiguous'' message.  So

	% `look metro`
says
	`look metro`: Ambiguous.

but

	% `look metron`
says
	metronome: Command not found.

It makes a certain amount of sense, though I think I'd prefer the
other way.  (Hmm---yet another C shell magic variable?)
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