terrell@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU (Roger Terrell) (07/21/88)
{} It occurs to me that a fairly simple tweak could be made to pathalias which would make it produce output (for smail) which consumes slightly less space. I notice that the name of each machine is repeated on every line as follows: example mach1!mach2!mach3!mach4!example!%s 900 (example is in both the first field and the second). It would be easy to do something like: example mach1!mach2!mach3!mach4!%m!%s 900 and programs reading from the data would simply substitute the value of the first field for %m. It's a tiny optimization, but it will save _some_ space, and will not noticably slow the programs that need to search the data. --Roger -- Roger Terrell ...musky2!terrell (UUCP) terrell@muskingum.edu (CSNet)