[comp.mail.elm] Elm aliases for other commands

phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) (10/09/89)

Has anyone written any code which would take an elm alias and return the
network address?  What I am thinking about is for use in commands like talk &
finger.  It would be nice to not have to remember full addresses.

-phil
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rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) (10/09/89)

In article <936@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
+Has anyone written any code which would take an elm alias and return the
+network address?  What I am thinking about is for use in commands like talk &
+finger.  It would be nice to not have to remember full addresses.

Use the elm utility program checkalias(1), surrounded by a shell script
that will strip off the irrelevant output.
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