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From: john@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Duplicate lines in pathalias output
Message-ID: <2302@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 23:25:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 29 23:25:45 1987
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References: <419@cos.COM>
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: smail pathalias pathproc
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Summary: case sensitivity

In article <419@cos.COM>, asp@COS.COM (Andrew S. Partan) writes:
> 	.uucp	decuac!%s	200
> 	.uucp	sundc!sun!intsc!%s	195

> 	pathalias -c [a-z]*.*Z | pathproc > /tmp/paths

What's happening is that you are not running pathalias with the -i
(ignore case) flag, so it considers case significant.  intsc lists
itself as a ".UUCP" forwarder (a problem in itself), and the input to
pathproc has a ".uucp" and a ".UUCP" line.  pathproc down-cases both
of them, and ....

I run pathalias -i and don't use pathproc, but I don't need to costs
either - I have smail set up to always try the call.

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John Owens		Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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