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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: all-time worst path?
Message-ID: <220@desint.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-May-86 17:43:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 26 17:43:56 1986
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In article <185@comp.lancs.ac.uk> stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk
(Stephen J. Muir) writes:

> Then you're running an outdated pathalias.  The latest version is given the
> list of map files (so it knows which file each site was in).  This way, it
> can differentiate between multiple hosts with the same name.

What a kludge! I suspect there are a lot of sites out there that, for
one reason or another, are forced to feed the maps to pathalias on standard
input.  For example, I don't have enough free space to change my current

	zcat u.*.Z | pathalias

into

	uncompress u.*.Z; pathalias u.*; compress -f u.*

Furthermore, this misfeature is not mentioned in any of the pathalias
documentation files (I just checked).
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff