NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/3753

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From: [e-mail] (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Alias file too big: any fix?
Date: 15 Dec 1992 18:22:07 -0500
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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[e-mail] (Don Geddis) writes:
>I've got a personal database program, which stores names, addresses,
>phone numbers, etc. of various people that I know.  I set it up to
>automatically construct an "aliases.text" file from its database.

>The problem, as might be anticipated from computer-generated lists, is
>that the number of aliases the database program constructs is often too
>much for elm to handle.  Running "newalias", to parse & hash the
>"aliases.text" file, often gives an error message saying something about
>too many aliases.  I can fix this my manually lopping off the end of my
>alias file, but that seems such a waste.

>Is there any way I set up elm to allow many more aliases (say, 10 times)
>than it currently handles?

In 2.3, the number of aliases is chosen by the installer.  It is fixed
for hash table reasons for that installation.

2.4 threw out 2.3's hash table method and uses a different alias method.
There is no fixed limit.  However, one user runs it with 15000+ aliases
and reports that startup time is a bit slow (no doubt, we didn't design
it with quite that many in mind....)

So, an upgrade to 2.4 sounds in order.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP          Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                 Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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