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- ; Sample alias file for Mercury.
- ; Copright (c) 1993-96, David Harris, All Rights Reserved.
- ;
- ; The format for this file is:
- ;
- ; alias == real_address
- ;
- ; Lines starting with ';', '#' or '*' are considered comments
- ; and are ignored, as are blank lines. There may be trailing
- ; and leading whitespace on entries - it is all stripped out
- ; in the alias file. It is a limitation of this release of
- ; Mercury that you cannot have an alias or real address which
- ; contains '==' because no quoting mechanism is implemented.
- ;
- ; Compile the file using MALIAS.EXE, and copy it to the place
- ; you have specified in MERCURY.INI. You can update Mercury's
- ; alias file while Mercury is running.
- ;
- ; You can have an almost unlimited number of aliases, and you
- ; may have them resolve to anything you wish. Aliases are
- ; resolved before any other attempt at address resolution is
- ; made, so it is perfectly legal to have a local-looking alias
- ; resolve to an off-server address. Note, though, that aliases
- ; work strictly on the ADDRESS - they are not affected by any
- ; quoted or comment text which is attached to it. As an example
- ; of the impact of this, the aliasing mechanism regards these
- ; two addresses as identical:
- ;
- ; "My what a funny day!" david@pmail.gen.nz
- ; (Master of the Lightbulbs) <david@pmail.gen.nz> "Pop!"
- ;
- ; Aliases may be applied recursively up to four levels deep -
- ; that is, you may have aliases for aliases in this file.
- ; (although it still eludes me why anyone would do this).
- ;
- ; Neither aliases nor real addresses are case-sensitive,
- ; although case is preserved in real addresses.
-
- david@pmail.gen.nz == support
- J.Smith@pmail.gen.nz == julia
- Richard.Stevenson@pmail.gen.nz == richard
- listserv@pmail.gen.nz == maiser
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