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NAME
      answer - phone message transcription system

SYNOPSIS
      answer

DESCRIPTION
      Answer is a part of the Elm mail system and is designed for secretaries
      and the like to allow them to answer phones and|or listen to phone
      message machines and quickly and easily transcribe the messages into
      electronic mail.

      The program uses its own alias set (usually a subset of the system
      aliases, with more fields per user (ie unique first names, unique last
      names, first-initial lastname, and so on)).  Note this means that you
      must create and then install, using newalias, a separate alias table for
      the account this program is to be run from.

      Interface-wise, the program is a breeze to use - type 'answer' to start
      it up and then merely type a user name at the

            Message to:

      prompt, and then enter the message, ending with a blank line.  Names can
      be entered as 'Firstname Lastname' and the system will try to find a mail
      alias based on the first letter of the first name plus the last name.
      For example, 'Dave Taylor' will cause the program to search for an alias
      'd_taylor' in the file (note the transliteration into lower case).   The
      program will loop until killed or quit.

      Answer can be easily exited by typing any of 'quit', 'exit' 'done', or
      'bye' at the 'Message to:' prompt.

AUTHOR
      Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

SEE ALSO
      The Elm Alias System Users Guide , by Dave Taylor

      newalias(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1), from(1L), printmail(1L)

FILES
      $HOME/.elm/aliases.text       individual alias source
      $HOME/.elm/aliases.hash       individual alias hash table
      $HOME/.elm/aliases.data       individual alias data table
      /tmp/snd.$$                   edit buffer for outgoing mail

BUG REPORTS TO
      Syd Weinstein     elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)





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