DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages

Search: Section:  

NEWALIAS(1L)                                                      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.dir, $HOME/.elm/aliases.pag and $HOME/.elm/aliases
       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

       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


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

       Elm Development Group


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

       Copyright 1988-1995 by The USENET Community Trust
       Derived from Elm 2.0,  Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor

USENET Community Trust          Elm Version 2.5                   NEWALIAS(1L)

Search: Section: