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From: jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Does Aliasing work in any version of Elm?
Summary: What version of Elm does Aliasing work?
Keywords: aliasing elm working what_version
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.163215.21166@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 16:32:15 GMT
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For some reason, I don't know what would make aliasing work or not work,
my aliases either don't expand correctly or they don't expand at all.

An example: (my aliases.text file looks like this after inputting aliases
             through Elm)

   name1 = name2 = name3
   me = J.B. Nicholson = jeffo@uiuc.edu

When I say 'elm name1' on the command line, Elm expands that to "name1"
(on one system that has patch level 10, I believe).  If I say 'elm me'
Elm expands that to "J.B. Nicholso" (the last letter always seems to be
getting cut off the real_name field).  Neither Elm alias expander works,
because Elm actually tries sending the mail to "name1" or "J.B. Nicholso"
respectively, never substituting "name3" or "jeffo@uiuc.edu" for the
To: field.

Is there a working alias in the latest version of Elm?  What is the latest
version of Elm?

Another alias related question:  When I say 'newalias' on the command
line, it goes through and checks the system aliases, not MY aliases.  What
is the name of the program that will go through and check my aliases.text
file for errors and update the aliases.hash and aliases.data files?  I've
looked at the alias manual, but neither the 'newalias' nor the 'checkalias'
program seems to work with my aliases, only the systems.  (I've temporarily
forgotten whether the program is call 'newaliases' or 'newalias', but I've
typed it correctly and seen the program working.)

Jeff
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