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Subject: Re: silly q
From: Ing E Palomar Lever <epalomar @ roentgen . gdl . iteso . mx>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:26:59 -0600 (CST)
To: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199612062013.OAA16379@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>



On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Dave Wolfe wrote:

> [ Ing E Palomar Lever writes: ]
> > 
> > Is it possible to split long lines in your aliases file by using
> > double quotation marks in each? For example:
> > 
> > my-list-archive: " %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% etc "
> >                  "   &&&&&&&&&&&&&&"
> 
> Perhaps, but leading whitespace (spaces or tabs) indicate continuation
> lines (to sendmail at least), so you don't need to close and reopen the
> quotes. For example:
> 
> my-list-archive: "|/some/really/long/path/to/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl
>     -a -m -f /some/really/long/path/to/majordomo/lists/my-list.archive"

What you say might be right, but if I do it the way you said, newaliases 
complain about 'non matching "'.

Eduardo Palomar




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