Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: compressed maps Message-ID: <3096@cognos.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 19:29:27 GMT Article-I.D.: cognos.3096 Posted: Wed Jun 1 15:29:27 1988 References: <478@ontenv.UUCP> Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee) Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 27 In article <478@ontenv.UUCP> soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes: >I've just installed uuhosts here (finally!) and would like to use the >feature that keeps the maps compressed. Only problem is I can't figure >out a sensible way to make this work with pathalias. Is there anything >can be done short of uncompressing the maps, running pathalias, then >compressing the maps again? Just zcat the files and pipe to pathalias, here is my shell script: ------------ newpathalias ------------ #!/bin/csh cd /system/maps/comp.mail.maps zcat path.local d.* u.* | pathalias -d seismo $* >/tmp/pathalias cd /usr/local/lib if -f pathalias then mv pathalias pathalias.old endif sort /tmp/pathalias >pathalias chmod a+r pathalias rm /tmp/pathalias -- Godfrey Lee P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated 3755 Riverside Dr. VOICE: (613) 738-1440 FAX: (613) 738-0002 Ottawa, Ontario UUCP: decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee CANADA K1G 3Z4