Re: aliases format makedb, extended lines

[mea@nic.funet.fi]

> Hi,
> 
> 	There is a little problem with it, makedb -a would not
> handle extended lines properly... Either it is still too early
> or it has to be like this:

	So you think that "\n\t" is too much ?  Perhaps if you
	would remove the "\n" from that string ?
	Consider lines like:

		alias:	foo1
			foo2

	Now as these are catenated, what will the result be ?
	What results work ?

		alias: foo1 foo2
		alias: foo1 , foo2

	I essentially preserved all of the white-spaces, including
	the newline, and in my tests it worked. (At aliases, that is)

	Are you considering using it somewhere else ?

	Perhaps some other (new) option for the new format would
	be in place ?

/Matti Aarnio


> *** makedb.c.orig       Thu Apr  2 10:50:03 1998
> --- makedb.c    Thu Apr  2 10:49:47 1998
> ***************
> *** 499,506 ****
>                         slen = strlen(s0);
>                         tlen = strlen(t) + 2;
>                         s0   = erealloc(s0, slen + tlen + 4);
> !                       memcpy(s0 + slen + 0, " ,\n\t", 4);
> !                       memcpy(s0 + slen + 4, t, tlen-1);
>                         continue;
>                 }
>                 if (*t == '\t' || *t == ' ') {
> --- 499,505 ----
>                         slen = strlen(s0);
>                         tlen = strlen(t) + 2;
>                         s0   = erealloc(s0, slen + tlen + 4);
> !                       memcpy(s0 + slen, t, tlen-1);
>                         continue;
>                 }
>                 if (*t == '\t' || *t == ' ') {
> 
> 							alexis
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