Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!van-bc!skl
From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Question or problem with 2.1
Summary: use "newalias"
Message-ID: <1935@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 19:08:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: van-bc.1935
References: <1000@raspail.UUCP>
Organization: Balliffe Consulting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <1000@raspail.UUCP>, steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) wrote:
>Sometimes I like to edit my aliases list by hand, which I should be able
>to do with a normal editor on the text version of the alias file.  But
>when I do what I did with 1.7b, which is to edit the text file and rm
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>the other two files, it doesn't find any of the aliases.  My old trick
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>to get around that was to create a bogus alias (z:z:z) with elm commands,
>and then the "rereading database in" would rebuild the hashed versions.
>
>In 2.1, elm isn't doing that anymore. ...

Instead of removing the other two files, you can run the "newalias" program
that's in the ELM package.  It will rebuild the other two files from the
text version of the alias list.

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Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl