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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Pathalias, makedb enquiry
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.202931.20651@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 24 Apr 91 20:29:31 GMT
References: <13102111@mailgsm.mendelson.com>
Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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root@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Superuser) writes:
> dtinker@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (David Tinker) asks:
> 
> 
> >1) Is libdbm.a available on piggy or anywhere else?  If someone has it
> >   I'd like to get it, or its equivalent (including a man page if
> >   possible).
> >2) Is pathalias available on piggy?  (It wasn't on mwcbbs last time I
> >   looked).  If not, would someone, more familiar with ftp than me, like
> >   to upload it?  Looks like a lot of people might need it soon.
> >
> 
Question 1)

I once tried to convince sendmail 5.9 to work with Coherent, just for fun.
Sendmail has a dbm/ndbm library that seems to work, I tried it with the
aliases-file. But am not sure because it was only a small file. But same
files on Interactive 386/ix and Coherent.

> You don't need pathalias at all. Pathalias is for people who act as a network
> backbone. Since your coherent system is not on the Internet, you dont need it

Everybody should try to port every source that seems to be able to work
with Coherent
Don't think about what you need today, think what may be needed in the future.

Joachim

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