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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: hostname change. stupid question?
Keywords: next, hostname, localhost
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Date: 19 Jun 91 14:36:43 GMT
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In article <5925@uniol.UUCP> Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
>Again, I might have a very stupid question:
>I would like to change the name of my NeXT from localhost to something
>else. 

Use the /NextAdmin/NetManager application.  It modifies the information in 
the /etc/hostconfig file using a whiz-bang user interface.  Alternatively,
you could just edit the file directly.

louie