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From: rogerk@MIPS.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: uucp name .vs. hostname
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Date: 14 Feb 91 02:37:45 GMT
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In article <1991Feb12.165443.5579@mips.mitek.com> matt@convex.mitek.com (Matthew Lyle) writes:
>This may be an obvious question that I'm just missing in the documentation but
>is there a way to set the uucp name to be different from the hostname in
>RiscOS 4.51?

Actually, it's an obvious question *we're* missing in the documentation, as
was AT&T in the document whence ours is derived.  Use the undocumented
"MYNAME" option in the Permissions file:

	LOGNAME=foo MYNAME=bar ...
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