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From: ekb@piggy.UUCP (Eric K. Bustad)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Full name lookup (NAME should be FULLNAME)
Message-ID: <384@piggy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 15:30:02 EST
Article-I.D.: piggy.384
Posted: Thu Nov 21 15:30:02 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 01:34:19 EST
References: <104@delftcc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 15
Keywords: ifuncs.c, inews

I grant that it may have been a mistake for inews to assume that the
value of the environment variable NAME was the user's full name.

It also seems to be an equal mistake for the Codata system to use NAME
to hold the user's login name.  The name "NAME" is just too general in
meaning, so it is probably better to avoid it entirely.

I wonder if the Codata developers considered the use of LOGNAME
instead.  That is what is used in System V.

= Eric Bustad
  AT&T Bell Laboratories
  Holmdel NJ
  201/949-6257
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