[comp.mail.elm] Binary search in non-DBM pathalias file doesn't work

jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (08/18/89)

Using a pathalias-compatible list of hosts of the format "host<tab>address"
without accessing it with DBM, it comes out that the binary search
doesn't work, dependent of the size of the pathalias file.
One example:

	abc	aaaaaaaa!bbbbbbbb!%s
	def	aaaaaaaa!bbbbbbbb!%s

does result in NOT expanding "abc!user" and

	abc	aaaaaaaa!bbbbbbbb!%s
	def	aaaaaaaa!bbbbbbbb!%s
	ghj	aaaaaaaa!bbbbbbbb!%s

does result in expanding "abc!user" to "aaa....!user".
Did anybody already have a patch for this (I use Elm 2.2 PL10)?

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