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From: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Why doesn't "dist" use aliases??
Message-ID: <25869F94.3630@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 19:14:27 GMT
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Reply-To: John Romine <jromine@beanie.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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(Alan Stebbens , ks%ccse@hub.ucsb.EDU) writes:
>After looking through the code, I notice that neither "dist" nor
>"post", which it invokes, use the "-alias" switch. ...
>I am about to ...  change the code to use the "-alias"
>switch for "dist".

I don't know why dist doesn't support -alias.  By all means, add the
code and send a diff to me.  I'll include it in future releases.

>Also, I notice that "post" doesn't even reference the
>".mh_profile".  Is this also intentional?

Yes.  "send" is a front-end to post.  You should not call post directly;
use "send" instead.
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John Romine