"Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...> wrote:

>
> What are the limitations on definitions in aliases.conf?
>
> Presumably an alias cannot contain '=' or '#' characters. Does
> it take any special attention of quoted aliases names? What
> length is supported for an alias name? Similarly what length
> can be the file name associated with an alias?

Special characters '=' and '#' are not allowed. Everything before the '='
character is considered an alias name and everything after that (till the
endline mark) is considered a file name. Spaces and tabs are trimmed. Quoted
names are not supported. There are no pathname length restrictions that I'm
aware of (except the MAXPATHLEN define).


Dmitry