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From: tagreen@lothario.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd Green)
Subject: Re: Hostname in Login Window
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 91 00:56:12 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.233011.9283@beaver.cs.washington.edu> rling@june.cs.washington.edu (Robert Ling) writes:
>
>You can have the login window display the hostname by editing the file
>/etc/ttys.  Change the line:
>
>    console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow   NeXT .....
>to
>    console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -HostName localhost"     NeXT ....

Or you can simply type:

dwrite loginwindow HostName localhost

Todd
P.S. though unrelated to this post, thanks to all of you who responded
to my novice programming questions!  The program/learning is coming
along rather well.
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