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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Fullname capability in smail 3.x?
Message-ID: <1990Aug09.175419.14449@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Aug 90 17:54:19 GMT
References: <201@dynasys.UUCP> <26BEC14F.1721@tct.uucp>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <26BEC14F.1721@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

>However, there is a simpler way.  According to the friendly
>documentation, an alias file can have :include: directives.  For
>example, if you want to put your fullnames alias information in the
>file "fullnames", add this line to your aliases file:
>
>	:include:fullnames

The :include:filename directive only works on the expansion side
of the alias, not the lookup keys.  It would be used for expanding
large lists or allowing certain expansions to be easily changed without
rebuilding the complete alias file (and perhaps without write access to
the alias/forward/list file that performs the inclusion).

Les Mikesell
 les@chinet.chi.il.us