Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!teecs!belkin
From: belkin@teecs.UUCP (Hershel Belkin)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Need help with pathalias
Message-ID: <290003@teecs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 21:07:39 GMT
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
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Please excuse this probably trivial question, but I have exhausted
the available manuals and "README" files without finding an
answer...

In attempting to update my "pathalias" database, I find that my
version of pathalias complains about two things present in the
current maps. These are:

   1. The use of <sitename> (ie. the angle-brackets) in the
      pathalias info section of the maps.  I get a "syntax error".

   2. The use of "FAST" as a cost modifier.  (None of the documents
      I have seen mention FAST.  My pathalias comments on FAST being
      undefined, and uses its "default" of 4000 (which, it seems to me, 
      probably results in a very good path being interpreted as a "bad" 
      path as far as cost is concerned).

As I am using a vendor-supported version of pathalias (Hewlett-Packard),
I may be able to approach the vendor for an update, if in fact these
are "new" features.  However this could take a while...  
In the interim, is there anything I can do?  Since I have no idea
that the "<...>" means, I can't think of a solution for that.  As
for the "FAST", I imagine that if I knew what numerical value FAST
represents I could simply use sed to change "FAST" to that value (?).

Any assistence here would be greatly appreciated, as my current
pathalias database (which was taken from another system) is getting
out of date!  Thanks!

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