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Re: How to make an alias to a group of people

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From: D.P. Suresh
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 02:29
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Go into the aliases option.
Them m)ake a new alias. Give the alias name, alias full name
and when you come to the address part, give a *blank* separated
list of addresses of all the persons in the group (say your classmates).

If this is too big, (tooo big aliases cannot be accepted by elm)
and you find it tiresome to key in all addresses, there is a
file $HOME/.elm/aliaes.text. The format of this file is:
<aliasname> = <aliasfullname> = <address>[, <address>]...

So to make a group of 3 persons a1, a2 and a3 the file can contain
a1 = This is a1 = a1@a1machine
a2 = This is a2 = a2@a2machine
a2 = This is a2 = a2@a2machine
groupa = This contains a1 a2 and a3 = a1, a2, a3

Note that this gives you two levels of aliasing. More that two levels
is strictly *prohibited*.

So after putting this in $HOME/.elm/aliases.text go into aliases
and make a dummy alias. This make elm to hash all the entries that
you faked in. if you feel, you could delete the dummy alias once
through.

If you dont know how to make an alias at *all*. Here is it.
	go into o)ptions. Make yourself an intermediate user.[U)ser <space>]
	get into a)lias. chose m)ake an alias.

D.P.Suresh
dps@esd.sgi.com
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