Christopher Adams said:
> I have run into a problem with my aliases file using archiving and
> MHonarc. Though both those functions are working, the aliases entry for
> each list has become rather long and it seems that the line is being
> broken so that I can't include it all on one line, which is a must.
> I'm not sure where the limitations come in to play (Unix,Pico, etc),
> but I am wondering if I can either 1) break the line using a special
> character, or 2) get suggestions as to how I could make more shorter
> lines in the alias, which is found below.
The problem is in pico, which word wraps by default. Pico is intended for
end users, not for admin work. You can turn off wrapping with the "-w"
option to pico. But you're much better off learning vi.
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