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From: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Expanding local aliases
Message-ID: <3138@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 17:01:02 GMT
References: <3112@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1991Jan24.192917.13930@DSI.COM>
Reply-To: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
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In article <1991Jan24.192917.13930@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) writes:
>>tome = Jimmy Page = tome
>
>>When I use this alias, I was getting
>>the message "Couldn't expand system tome" at the bottom of the screen, but
>>it worked okay.
>and always has.   I think you have a good mystery to start to
>track down.
>
I found the problem, the person who had installed elm on this system hadn't
installed a new "newalias" utility, and so I was using an old one.  I
backed up my aliases.hash file, ran the right newalias (creating a new
aliases.hash) and it works fine now.  (though it still says "Couldn't 
expand system tome" when I use that and other local aliases).

Thanks,
		--eric
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