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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: HELP <- ELM ALIAS PROBLEM
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.213119.20382@DSI.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 91 21:31:19 GMT
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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mwitten@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (matthew witten) writes:
>I could use some advice/help/fixes for the following problem.
>I am using ELM on a SUN. For some reason, ELM has a present 
>number of aliases that can be entered. In this case approximately
>250. When you exceed that, you get an error message. However,
>ELM will not rebuild the .hash and .data files for the aliases.
>This, in spite of the fact that it will save aliases in the .TEXT
>file. Thus, while alias 251 may exist in the .TEXT file it will
>not exist in any of the hash or data tables. Further, ELM does
>not rebuild the tables. As a consequence of this action,
>all of the aliases become unusable. 
Yup, the error is fatal...

>I need to be able to store a large (~1,000) number of aliases.
Contact the person who installed Elm on your system and
see if they agree you need 1000 aliases, if so, have them
recompile Elm with a larger alias table, its one of the
configure options in Elm.  Its a memory tradeoff in 2.3.
Hopefully in 2.4 we will have a different algorithm in place
that won't care about the hash table size.
(its been talked about, but I've yet to see the code :-) )

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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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