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From: ln63wzb@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (Mike Sanford [TA])
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Long bang paths
Message-ID: <1103@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 89 01:00:12 GMT
References: <599@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ln63wzb@sdcc13.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Mike Sanford)
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Organization: Univ. of California, San Diego
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In article <599@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I'm using mailx on a SysV R3.1 3B2/400.  90% of my email has addresses that
>begin:
>	njsmu!princeton!njin!rutgers!
>Is there any way to assign that string to a key or alias or ??? so that
>I don't have to type it every time?  
>Thanks.
>Pete Holsberg                   UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh
>Mercer College			CompuServe: 70240,334
>1200 Old Trenton Road           GEnie: PJHOLSBERG
>Trenton, NJ 08690               Voice: 1-609-586-4800

I have found that you can create a shell variable that will do this:

$ NETPATH=njsmu!princeton!njin!rutgers ; export NETPATH

Then to use this:

$ mailx $NETPATH!root

Good Luck,
Mike
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