Added note that suffixes were removed from filenames of temporary files.

[nmh] / man / ali.man

diff --git a/man/ali.man b/man/ali.man
index 1b54e0f12a6771f965dd3295d7eaa47785da899a..1b9d670a3aa69e246eb508b76e920309ccb26483 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ali.man
+++ b/man/ali.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH ALI %manext1% "January 1, 2001" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH ALI %manext1% "December 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ ali \- list mail aliases
 .RB [ \-alias
 .IR aliasfile ]
 .RB [ \-list " | " \-nolist ]
-.RB [ \-normalize " | " \-nonormalize ]
 .RB [ \-user " | " \-nouser ]
 .RB [ \-version ]
 .RB [ \-help ] 
@@ -42,12 +41,7 @@ an inverted fashion: instead of listing the addresses that each given
 alias expands to,
 .B ali
 will list the aliases that expand to each
-given address.  If the
-.B \-normalize
-switch is given,
-.B ali
-will
-try to track down the official hostname of the address.
+given address.
 .PP
 The files specified by the profile entry
 .RI \*(lq Aliasfile \*(rq
@@ -59,6 +53,18 @@ switch will be read.  Each
 is processed as described in
 .IR mh\-alias (5).
 .SH FILES
+Alias files are looked up in multiple locations: if the pathname is
+absolute or starts with
+.RI \*(lq . \*(rq
+or
+.RI \*(lq .. \*(rq
+then it's accessed directly; otherwise tilde expansion is done on
+usernames, then files are searched for in the user's
+.I Mail
+directory as specified in their profile.  If not found there, the directory
+.RI \*(lq %etcdir% \*(rq
+is checked.
+.PP
 .TP 20
 $HOME/.mh\-profile
 The user's profile.
@@ -82,8 +88,6 @@ aliasfile
 .TP
 \-nolist
 .TP
-\-nonormalize
-.TP
 \-nouser
 .PD
 .SH CONTEXT