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- From: ziegast@godzilla.UU.NET (Eric W. Ziegast)
- Subject: Re: "file" directives in the UUCP maps???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.020100.640@uunet.uu.net>
- Sender: usenet@uunet.uu.net (UseNet News)
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- Organization: UUNET Technologies - Falls Church, VA
- References: <1992Jul29.151151.28025@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:01:00 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
- |> I have noticed that quite a few of the maps now posted in comp.mail.maps
- |> contain as the first line "file {...}" with the file name contained in
- |> the curly braces. This is the first line in the file AFTER extraction
- |> with sh.
- |>
- |> Why are they there?
-
- Many people do something silimilar to the following when
- rebuildiung UUCP alias tables:
-
- cat uumap/u.* | some filters | pathalias | ...etc...
-
- If there's an error, pathalias would say something like:
-
- "line 56437: syntax error"
-
- It's very hard to track down. If one uses the "file" line at the top of
- all of their files, they would more likely see:
-
- "u.usa.va.2", line 74: syntax error
-
- It's much easier to track down the error when you know what file it's
- in.
-
- |> Edward Vielmetti kindly pointed me at version 10 of pathalias.
- |> It can be had via anonymous FTP from citi.umich.edu in /usr/honey.
- |> I am running it now and it seems to have fixed the problem.
-
- Both of the following are Version 10, or at least the latest we know of:
-
- ftp.uu.net:/networking/mail/uucp/pathalias/pathalias.Z
- citi.umich.edu:/usr/honey/pathalias/pathalias.Z
- --
- Eric Ziegast
-