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From: sam@delftcc.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Full name lookup (NAME should be FULLNAME)
Message-ID: <104@delftcc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 23:21:41 EST
Article-I.D.: delftcc.104
Posted: Tue Nov 19 23:21:41 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Nov-85 03:55:11 EST
Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York
Lines: 31
Keywords: ifuncs.c, inews

Some systems (like our Codata) put the logname into the environment
variable NAME; unfortunately, news thinks that NAME contains the user's
full name.

The simplest solution is to use FULLNAME instead of NAME.  To maintain
compatibility, though, perhaps inews should try FULLNAME, then NAME, but
reject NAME if it is the same as the logname.  (If those fail, of
course, inews should do what it does now, try $HOME/.name, then
/etc/passwd.)

This is the old simplicity vs. compatibility decision.  News isn't
commercial software, so I think simplicity is the way to go.  Minor
one-time user annoyance vs. minor long-term complication.  But in case
someone wants to do the complicated solution, diffs for it are below.

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Sam Kendall
Delft Consulting Corp.
(212) 243-8700
{allegra, seismo!cmcl2, ihnp4}!delftcc!sam

*** OLD ifuncs.c:
	fn = getenv("NAME");
*** NEW ifuncs.c:
!	fn = getenv("FULLNAME");
+
+ 	if (fn == NULL) {
+ 		fn = getenv("NAME");
+ 		if (fn != NULL && strcmp(fn, logname) == 0)
+ 			fn = NULL;
+ 	}