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NEWALIAS(1L)							  NEWALIAS(1L)

NAME
       newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system

SYNOPSIS
       newalias [-g]

DESCRIPTION
       Newalias creates new hash and data files from a text file.  If the pro‐
       gram is invoked with the -g (global) flag, the program updates the sys‐
       tem  alias  files.   Otherwise,	the  program  looks  for a file called
       $HOME/.elm/aliases.text	 and,	upon   finding	 it,   creates	 files
       $HOME/.elm/aliases.dir,	$HOME/.elm/aliases.pag	and $HOME/.elm/aliases
       for the elm program.

       The format that the program expects is;

	    alias, alias, .. = comment = address
       or
	    alias, alias, .. = comment = alias, alias, ...

       The first form is for an individual user such as;

	    dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat

       or optionally as;

	    dave, taylor = Taylor; Dave = veeger!hpcnou!dat

       to allow the aliases to be properly sorted by last name.

       The second is for defining a group alias such as;

	    gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john, dave, mike, richard,
			      larry, t_richardson

       Note that lines can be continued at  will,  blank  lines	 are  accepted
       without error, and that any line starting with '#' is considered a com‐
       ment and is not processed.

       If the `comment', or `address' fields need to contain  `='  characters,
       those  characters must either be escaped using a backslash character or
       the address must be inside doublequotes (`"').

       Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave are both the same alias.

       Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups;

	    unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy

FILES
       $HOME/.elm/aliases.text	       alias source for user
       $HOME/.elm/aliases.dir	       alias dbz directory for user
       $HOME/.elm/aliases.pag	       alias dbz hash file for user
       $HOME/.elm/aliases	       alias data file for user
       /usr/local/lib/aliases.text     alias source for system
       /usr/local/lib/aliases.dir      alias dbz directory for system
       /usr/local/lib/aliases.pag      alias data hash table for system
       /usr/local/lib/aliases	       alias data file for system

AUTHOR
       Elm Development Group

SEE ALSO
       elm(1L), elmalias(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
       Newalias has a couple of descriptive error messages which don't need to
       be  detailed  here.   It	 is, however, worth noting that the checkalias
       program can be used to ensure that the aliases are in the proper	 order
       and are available for the elm system.

BUG REPORTS TO
       Bill Pemberton  flash@virginia.edu

COPYRIGHTS
       Copyright 1988-1995 by The USENET Community Trust
       Derived from Elm 2.0,  Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor

USENET Community Trust		Elm Version 2.5			  NEWALIAS(1L)

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