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From: indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm should auto-newalias
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.054343.26902@amd.com>
Date: 12 Aug 90 05:43:43 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices; Sunnyvale, CA
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Users most often forget to run newalias after manually editing the
.elm/aliases.text file. I have had several users question the aliasing
ability of elm and I find they did not run newalias.

I should think it would be a simple enhance elm to have it verify that
aliases.text is not newer than the hash table. And either just run newalias
or put out warning indicating the .elm/aliases.text is new and that the
user should run newalias.

Comments?

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