Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1339 comp.std.c:37 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!umix!honey From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.std.c Subject: Re: compressed maps Message-ID: <4117@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: 5 Jun 88 13:47:49 GMT References: <478@ontenv.UUCP> <3096@cognos.UUCP> <2447@plus5.UUCP> Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan Lines: 16 UUCP-Path: {uunet,rutgers}!umix!honey i get my pathalias input from this script: for i in $*; do case $i in *.Z) echo "file {`expr $i : '\(.*\).Z'`} zcat $i ;; *) echo "file {$i}" cat $i ;; esac echo "private {}" done | pathalias ... the "file {}" syntax is new; if you aren't ftp-ing pathalias regularly, you'll get a syntax error. peter