Reworked test-rcvdist so that it sees the output of post.

[mmh] / man / mh-alias.man

diff --git a/man/mh-alias.man b/man/mh-alias.man
index aa3c3f1..c88ccd3 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mh-alias.man
+++ b/man/mh-alias.man
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
-.\" $Id$
 .\"
 .TH MH-ALIAS %manext5% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
 .SH NAME
@@ -45,6 +44,10 @@ or
 or
 .RS 5
 .B ;
+|
+.B :
+|
+.B #
 .I comment
 .RE
 .PP
@@ -64,7 +67,9 @@ where:
 .RE
 .PP
 Continuation lines in alias files end with `\\' followed by the newline
-character.
+character.  This applies to comment lines.  Thus, a line following a
+comment line that ends with a `\\' will be treated as a continuation of
+the comment.
 .PP
 .RI \*(lq  Alias\-file \*(rq
 and
@@ -202,8 +207,8 @@ greater than 200, and all aliases of the form
 The key thing to understand about aliasing in
 .B nmh
 is that aliases in
-/B nmh
-lias files are expanded into the headers of messages posted.
+.B nmh
+alias files are expanded into the headers of messages posted.
 This aliasing occurs first, at posting time, without the knowledge of the
 message transport system.  In contrast, once the message transport system
 is given a message to deliver to a list of addresses, for each address
@@ -250,7 +255,7 @@ file as appropriate.
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
-.ta \w'/usr/local/nmh/etc/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
 ^%etcdir%/MailAliases~^global nmh alias file
 .fi