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- NAME
- newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system
-
- SYNOPSIS
- newalias [-g]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Newalias creates new hash and data files from a text file. If the
- program is invoked with the -g (global) flag, the program updates the
- system alias files. Otherwise, the program looks for a file called
- $HOME/.elm/aliases.text and, upon finding it, creates files
- $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash and $HOME/.elm/aliases.data for the elm program.
-
- The format that the program expects is;
-
- alias, alias, .. = comment = address
- or
- alias, alias, .. = comment = alias, alias, ...
-
- The first form is for an individual user such as;
-
- dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat
-
- and the second is for defining a group alias such as;
-
- gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john, dave, mike, richard,
- larry, t_richardson
-
-
- Note that lines can be continued at will, blank lines are accepted
- without error, and that any line starting with '#' is considered a
- comment and is not processed.
-
- Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave are both the same alias.
-
- Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups;
-
- unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy
- ' onto the next page, if you please
-
-
-
-
- FILES
- $HOME/.elm/aliases.text alias source for user
- $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash alias hash table for user
- $HOME/.elm/aliases.data alias data file for user
- /usr/local/lib/aliases.text alias source for system
- /usr/local/lib/aliases.hash alias hash table for system
- /usr/local/lib/aliases.data alias data file for system
-
- AUTHOR
- Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
-
- SEE ALSO
- elm(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)
-
- DIAGNOSTICS
- Newalias has a couple of descriptive error messages which don't need to
- be detailed here. It is, however, worth noting that the checkalias
- program can be used to ensure that the aliases are in the proper order
- and are available for the elm system.
-
- BUG REPORTS TO
- Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)
-
- COPYRIGHTS
- (c) Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
- (c) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust
-