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From: markf@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Fullmer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Fingering from Elm?
Summary: quick & dirty
Keywords: elm, alias, listalias
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.041642.7820@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 04:16:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.011742.2308@menudo.uh.edu> honp9@menudo.uh.edu (Jason L. Tibbitts III) writes:
>Occaisionally I like to check up on my friends around the world using the
>
>Is there a way to finger someone from within Elm, with Elm doing alias
>expansion?  I don't see it there in the docs, but then I might not have
>all of the docs.

quick c-shell hack 

alias qf 'listalias \!* | awk -f $home/.ffilt | xargs -l finger'

$home/.ffilt looks like:

{print $2}

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then just do a qf (quick finger) alias.

mark

-- 
In the begining, or should I say: at the unix prompt.
- charlotte (sometimes)