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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newalias problem under root
Message-ID: <320@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 23 Feb 89 20:04:25 GMT
References: <198017@hrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@wubios.UUCP (David J. Camp)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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In article <198017@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes:
:>
:>I am running Elm 2.1, and when trying to run newalias under root,
:>and answer yes to update the system alias, I get the following:
:>
:>Bad alias name: jeff:jeffatswusrgrp:swusrgrp!jeff. Too long.
:>
:>
:>This is what me .alias_text file looks like:
:>
:>jeff : jeff at swusrgrp : swusrgrp!jeff
:>
:>
:>Any ideas?

You need to use '=' characters instead of ':' characters as delimeters
in your aliases.text file.  -David-
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