Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:49 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> What I'd really like, instead of that, is aliases for archives.  Add an
> --alias option to register-archive, which allows you to specify an alias
> name.  For simplicity, aliases probably shouldn't be allowed to be valid
> archive names.

Just use shell environment variables.  They work perfectly for this
purpose.  No need to add anything to tla.

~/.archives:
foo="address@hidden"
export foo

~/.bashrc:
. ~/.archives

$ tla get $foo/blah--main--0

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