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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: uname.sysname
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Date: 13 Mar 91 16:59:09 GMT
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Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)

In article <125382@uunet.UU.NET> ernest@pegasus.dsg.tandem.com (Ernest Hua) writes:
>What is the real story?

The real story is that sysname and nodename were inadequately specified,
so different vendors did different things with them.  Sorry.


Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 11