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Subject: Re: alias sharing...
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Date: 22 Apr 91 22:53:15 GMT
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In <1991Apr19.125422.18608@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:

>Who needs to write C code, just write a shell wrapper around
>the "elm -c" command.
>
>$ elm -c syd
>Expands to: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
>
>Then just chop it using expr or sed to remove the stuff you don't
>want, such as the Expands to: and the ( ) comment.

Ah, see, that's what I get when I give suggestions after reading the manual
page but before testing it. Elm is a little too verbose for my taste. :-)

Good old MH does it in one step:

set mail-alias-expander 	<path-to-mh6.7>/ali

for me <path-to-mh6.7> is '/usr/local/bin/mh_6.7'.
For most people it will be '/usr/new/mh'.

	-Jaap-