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From: lauther@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Ulrich Lauther)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm should auto-newalias
Message-ID: <38108@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 12 Aug 90 17:16:17 GMT
References: <1990Aug12.054343.26902@amd.com>
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In article <1990Aug12.054343.26902@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) writes:
>
>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.
>
A simle solution would be to prvide a small shell-scipt to your users, that
invoces your (or their) favourite editor *and* does the running of
newalias, something like this:

:
vi $HOME/.elm/aliases.text
$HOME/elm2.3/bin/newalias

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