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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm aliases for other commands
Message-ID: <6202@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 05:55:06 GMT
References: <936@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <936@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
+Has anyone written any code which would take an elm alias and return the
+network address?  What I am thinking about is for use in commands like talk &
+finger.  It would be nice to not have to remember full addresses.

Use the elm utility program checkalias(1), surrounded by a shell script
that will strip off the irrelevant output.
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