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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Looking for .sig, or not
Message-ID: <582@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 10 Oct 88 06:28:50 GMT
References: <8043@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <8043@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> randy@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Randy Orrison) writes:
>Why doesn't whatever copies in .signature look in $HOME?  What is it,
>anyway, that copies in .signature?  None of the man pages mention it
>(Pnews or inews or rn!).  I've tried setting $DOTDIR but that doesn't
>work either.

I agree that inews should look at $HOME, but it doesn't.
It looks at the field in the /etc/passwd file to find the user's
home directory.
Watch out: this holds for inews. As said in another reply, some other
programs look at other things!

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