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From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why does buildfname skip past hyphens?
Message-ID: <606@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 17:21:37 GMT
References: <111@indri.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK.
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In article <111@indri.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in
Neutral) writes:
> [...]  Thus articles by a
>user such as "Firstname Lastname-Hyphenated" get posted as being from
>just "Hyphenated".

	He's lucky.  On this system, the "gecos" field is occupied by such
interesting info as disc quotas and priorities.  Hence my name is apparently
"4".  I dread to think what my less important [:-)] brethren and cistern are
apparently called.

	[Yes, I know how to cure the problem, but life's too short.]

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk