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