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From: asp@COS.COM (Andrew S. Partan)
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Subject: Duplicate lines in pathalias output
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:56:10 EDT
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I just noticed that I have some duplicate lines in my pathalias output
file.  E.g.:
	.uucp	decuac!%s	200
	.uucp	sundc!sun!intsc!%s	195
There are about 21 such lines (out of a total of 10093 lines in the
file).

I run pathalias as the notes to smail 2.3 suggested (in the man page
for pathproc(8)):
	pathalias -c [a-z]*.*Z | pathproc > /tmp/paths

I am running pathalias 8.2 (from approx Jan '86).

Other information (probably not relevant):
	Sun 3/280, Sun OS 3.3, mostly 4.2 BSD

Does any one have any idea what might be going on or how to fix it?

One thought that I had was to update the pathproc script to check for
this and delete the more expensive of the two paths.  However, I
thought that pathalias was supposed to do this already (only emit the
less expensive path).

Thanks for any light that anyone can shed on the subject.

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