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/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 Weinstein    elm@DSI.COM    (dsinc!elm)

COPYRIGHTS
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