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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Get-Token Error
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.143335.7734@DSI.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 89 14:33:35 GMT
References: <220@flash.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross) writes:

>Just after leaving the editor (vi), one of my users attempts to
>change the Cc: and/or Bcc: fields using 'edit (h)eaders' and gets
>the following error:

>--> Get-token calls nested greater than 20 deep!
>--> Emergency exit taken!
>--> All temp files intact!
>What gives?
Sounds like that user has an alias file with a loop in it.

Ie:

name1 = some string = name2
name2 = some string = name1

(now, thats a simple one, the loop could be longer, or part of a
group alias, etc.)  Anyway, the expansion recurses beyond a built
in limit and Elm error exits.

Thats just one likely item.  Anybody else got any others?
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