NEWALIAS(1L)        USENET Community Trust(Elm Version 2.3)        NEWALIAS(1L)


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/dell/elm/lib/aliases.text     alias source for system
      /usr/dell/elm/lib/aliases.hash     alias hash table for system
      /usr/dell/elm/lib/aliases.data     alias data file for system





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NEWALIAS(1L)        USENET Community Trust(Elm Version 2.3)        NEWALIAS(1L)


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 Weinstein     elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)

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




































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