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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: recovering clobbered aliases file
Message-ID: <978@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 18:26:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 20 18:26:49 1983
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We're running MMDF here at U of MD, and I added a dbm-based
pre-expanded alias file to submit to speed it up.  I have essentially
the same thing (print out the aliases file from the dbm version), but
it's built into the new "newaliases" as the -l option.  Maybe that
should become standard?  (-l is for "list", by the way.)  There is one
problem -- the expanded version of the alias file is *much* larger than
the original, because of things like

msgs:msgs_local,...
msgs_local:/usr/local/post system 7@shell,...

and would need to be compressed after regeneration.

					- Chris
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