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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: edit aliases manually
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.025228.28362@DSI.COM>
- Keywords: alias,manual,edit
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- References: <1992Sep2.231801.27840@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep3.012704.2607@DSI.COM> <ladeb7INNbgo@kalahari.cs.utexas.edu> <ladf50INNbik@kalahari.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:52:28 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- spiegl@cs.utexas.edu (Andreas Spiegl) writes:
-
- >I want to add some alias definition to my aliases.text etc files w/o
- >having to type every one of them in seperately.
- >In a previous version of elm, I was able to just add the aliases to the
- >file aliases.text in the .elm directory, then deleted the .hash and .data
- >files, started elm, added some other alias, and elm would start reading
- >the (new) aliases.text file and building the .hash and .data file.
- In the previous versions, you edited the aliases.text and ran the command
- newalias.
-
- >This does not work with version 2.3. Is there a different way to do this?
- >Or is it just not possible?
- In the current version you edit the file .elm/aliases.text and run newalias.
-
- In 2.4 you edit the file .elm/aliases.text and run newalias.
-
- It hasn't changed, it won't change.
- --
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
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