--- gforth/wordinfo.fs	1995/10/07 17:38:21	1.7
+++ gforth/wordinfo.fs	1996/01/07 17:22:17	1.9
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 \ WORDINFO.FS  V1.0                                    17may93jaw
 
+\ Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+\ This file is part of Gforth.
+
+\ Gforth is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+\ modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+\ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+\ of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+\ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+\ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+\ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+\ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+\ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+\ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+\ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
 \ May be cross-compiled
 \ If you want check values then exclude comments,
 \ but keep in mind that this can't be cross-compiled
@@ -10,14 +28,16 @@ INCLUDE look.fs
 \ and finds out what wordtype we have
 \ it is used in SEE.FS
 
-: alias? ( nfa -- flag )
-        dup name> look
-        0= ABORT" WINFO: CFA not found"
-\       cell+
-        2dup <>
-        IF   nip dup 1 cells - here !
-             count $1f and here cell+ place true
-        ELSE 2drop false THEN ;
+\ the old alias? did not work and it is not used, so I changed
+\ it in many respects - anton
+: alias? ( nfa1 -- nfa2|0 )
+    \ if nfa1 is an alias, nfa2 is the name of the original word
+    cell+ dup c@ $80 and 0=
+    IF
+	(name>) @ >name ( use look instead? )
+    ELSE
+	drop 0
+    THEN ;
 
 : var?  ( nfa -- flag )
     cell+ (name>) >code-address dovar: = ;