NEWALIAS (1)
install new elm aliases for user and/or system
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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
or optionally as;
dave, taylor = Taylor; Dave = veeger!hpcnou!dat
to allow the aliases to be properly sorted by last name.
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.
If the `comment', or `address' fields need to contain `=' characters,
those characters must either be escaped using a backslash character
or the address must be inside doublequotes (`"').
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
' onto the next page, if you please
FILES
$HOME/.elm/aliases.text alias source for user
$HOME/.elm/aliases.dir alias dbz directory for user
$HOME/.elm/aliases.pag alias dbz hash file for user
$HOME/.elm/aliases alias data file for user
/usr/local/lib/aliases.text alias source for system
/usr/local/lib/aliases.dir alias dbz directory for system
/usr/local/lib/aliases.pag alias data hash table for system
/usr/local/lib/aliases alias data file for system
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
elm(1L) elmalias(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
Bill Pemberton flash@virginia.edu
COPYRIGHTS
\*(ctCopyright 1988-1995 by The USENET Community Trust
Derived from Elm 2.0, \*(ct Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
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