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- From: klensin@infoods.mit.edu (John C Klensin)
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- Subject: RE: Handling of aliases via Option Name_table_name
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:33:43 GMT
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- Ned,
- Thanks very much for the quick response.
-
- My last question wasn't clear....
- > (2) Is there any reasonable way to test whether such a search resulted
- > in a "hit?". It appears that one might be able to do this with a
- > $[image,...]
- > rule that searched the logical name table itself, but is there an
- >
- >The PMDF TEST/REWRITE utility lists the expansion of any address you give it at
- >the very end of its output. This takes all alias expansion into account. In
- >general aliases don't expand into headers, so they don't show up in the earlier
- >output of PMDF TEST/REWRITE that pertains to what headers would look like.
-
- Sorry... The requirement is a production one, not a "test" one. In
- essence, I'm trying to construct a rule that sends things out one
- channel if they map onto aliases specified by a particular logical name
- table, and out another channel if they aren't found there. I'm actively
- trying to translate the requirement into some more reasonable form, but
- have not yet been successful in doing so.
-
- john
-