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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