escape the quoting hell, use a function

tested on Interix

dot.mkshrc

@@ -27,8 +27,11 @@ alias la='l -a'
 alias ll='l -l'
 alias lo='la -lo'
 whence -p rot13 >/dev/null || alias rot13='tr [A-Za-z] [N-ZA-Mn-za-m]'
-whence -p hd >/dev/null || alias hd="hexdump -e '"'"%08.8_ax  " 8/1 '\
-'"%02X " " - " 8/1 "%02X "'"' -e '\"  |\" \"%_p\"' -e '\"|\\n\"'"
+whence -p hd >/dev/null || function hd
+{
+	hexdump -e '"%08.8_ax  " 8/1 "%02X " " - " 8/1 "%02X "' \
+	    -e '"  |" "%_p"' -e '"|\n"' "$@"
+}
 
 # strip comments (and leading/trailing whitespace if IFS is set) from
 # any file(s) given as argument, or stdin if none, and spew to stdout
@@ -42,4 +45,4 @@ function Lstripcom
 
 # place customisations between this line and the ": RCSID" line below
 
-: $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/dot.mkshrc,v 1.9 2007/04/16 18:54:37 tg Exp $
+: $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/dot.mkshrc,v 1.10 2007/04/17 20:00:37 tg Exp $