judyb@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM (Judy Brodhead) (03/29/91)
I am fairly new to elm, and I notice by reading this group that we
have an old version of elm. HOwever, am reluctant to change the version at
this time, unless I know the following problems are related to version.
Problem:
One reader of the man page, seeing,
The format of alias-text file is:
alias [, alias, ...] = [ fullname = ] address [,
address, ...]
believes that you can have multiple lines of aliases simply by ending
a line with a ,
This doesn't work. Just continuing the line (no end of line) works
nicely up to a point, but there is a limit in the length of a continued line--
also, the aliases that elmalias -c will pick up for the group in question
will only include the aliases at the start of the list.
for example:
lab = lab people = betty, jane, paul, smithy, zeus, banana, steve, kary,joan, judy, jane@hpd200.desk.hp.com,
etc. might just pickup through joan in an elm -c.
What is the limit on the number of aliases, if there is one?
It was also suggested to me that I regroup into something of the
sort:
project1 = labproject1 = judy, jane, bob@hp-lsd
project2 = labproject2 = sam, susi, terri
lab = entire lab = project1, project2
Is that the best way to proceed?
Thanks for any help.
judy Brodhead
judyb@hp-lsd
p.s. our version of elm
Elm version 2.01 (alpha-release) of April 1988