acua pp <login> <inFile> <outFile>

Using <login>'s ACUA user record, acua pp performs processing on <inFile> and places the output in <outFile>. Be warned that <outFile> will be over-written.

The processing is very simple -- it expands the following:

Example:

If you had a inFile similar to this one:

Login:  $login
Phone: $phNo
Online: $online

Then the result of running acua pp inFile outFile would be something similar to:

Login:   foo
Phone:  N/A
Online: YES [your.host.name:number_of_logins]

Important Note:

The search order for inFile is a little out of the usual.  First, the acua pp program will examine the first charactor of <inFile> to see if it is a / (slash) or a . (dot).  If it is either of those, then the acua pp program will assume you have supplied the full or relevant path from the directory you ran acua pp in.  If acua pp does not find a / (slash) or a . (dot) as the first letter of the filename <inFIle> it will then look in /usr/lib/acua for the <inFile> mentioned.  If it doesn't find it there, it will then look in the current directory.


Robert Davidson