newalias

     NAME
          newalias - install new elm aliases for user and/or system

     SYNOPSIS
          newalias [-g]

     DESCRIPTION
          Newalias creates new hash and data files from a text file.
          If the program is invoked with the -g (global) flag, the
          program updates the system alias files.  Otherwise, the
          program looks for a file called $HOME/.elm/aliases.text and,
          upon finding it, creates files $HOME/.elm/aliases.dir,
          $HOME/.elm/aliases.pag and $HOME/.elm/aliases for the elm
          program.

          The format that the program expects is;

               alias, alias, .. = comment = address
          or
               alias, alias, .. = comment = alias, alias, ...

          The first form is for an individual user such as;

               dave, taylor = Dave Taylor = veeger!hpcnou!dat

          or optionally as;

               dave, taylor = Taylor; Dave = veeger!hpcnou!dat

          to allow the aliases to be properly sorted by last name.

          The second is for defining a group alias such as;

               gurus = Unix Gurus = alan, john, dave, mike, richard,
                                 larry, t_richardson


          Note that lines can be continued at will, blank lines are
          accepted without error, and that any line starting with '#'
          is considered a comment and is not processed.

          If the `comment', or `address' fields need to contain `='
          characters, those characters must either be escaped using a
          backslash character or the address must be inside
          doublequotes (`"').

          Aliases are case insensitive so dave and Dave are both the
          same alias.

          Finally, aliases can contain other aliases, and/or groups;

               unix = Unix people = gurus, taylor, jonboy

     FILES
          $HOME/.elm/aliases.text         alias source for user
          $HOME/.elm/aliases.dir          alias dbz directory for user
          $HOME/.elm/aliases.pag          alias dbz hash file for user
          $HOME/.elm/aliases              alias data file for user
          /usr/local/lib/aliases.text     alias source for system
          /usr/local/lib/aliases.dir      alias dbz directory for
          system
          /usr/local/lib/aliases.pag      alias data hash table for
          system
          /usr/local/lib/aliases          alias data file for system

     AUTHOR
          Elm Development Group

     SEE ALSO
          elm(1L), elmalias(1L), checkalias(1L), mail(1), mailx(1)

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Newalias has a couple of descriptive error messages which
          don't need to be detailed here.  It is, however, worth
          noting that the checkalias program can be used to ensure
          that the aliases are in the proper order and are available
          for the elm system.

     BUG REPORTS TO
          Syd Weinstein  elm@DSI.COM    (dsinc!elm)

     COPYRIGHTS
          Copyright 1988-1992 by The USENET Community Trust
          Derived from Elm 2.0,  Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor