NAME

newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system

SYNOPSIS

newalias [-g]

DESCRIPTION

Newalias creates new hash and data files from a text file.  If the program is invoked with the -g (global) flag, the program updates the system alias files.  Otherwise, the program looks for a file called $HOME/.elm/aliases.text and, upon finding it, creates files $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash and $HOME/.elm/aliases.data for the elm program. 

The format that the program expects is;

alias, alias, .. = comment = address
or
alias, alias, .. = comment = alias, alias, ...
 
The first form is for an individual user such as;
 dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat
 and the second is for defining a group alias such as;
 gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john, dave, mike, richard,
             larry, t_richardson
 

Note that lines can be continued at will, blank lines are accepted without error, and that any line starting with ’#’ is considered a comment and is not processed. Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave are both the same alias.

Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups;

unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy

FILES

$HOME/.elm/aliases.text         alias source for user
$HOME/.elm/aliases.hash         alias hash table for user
$HOME/.elm/aliases.data         alias data file for user
/usr/local/lib/aliases.text     alias source for system
/usr/local/lib/aliases.hash     alias hash table for system
/usr/local/lib/aliases.data     alias data file for system

AUTHOR

Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. 

SEE ALSO

elm(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

Newalias has a couple of descriptive error messages which don’t need to be detailed here.  It is, however, worth noting that the checkalias program can be used to ensure that the aliases are in the proper order and are available for the elm system. 

BUG REPORTS TO

Syd Weinsteinelm@DSI.COM(dsinc!elm)

COPYRIGHTS

© Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
© Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust

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