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On Tue, 14 Jan 92 14:39:19 PST Yossie Silverman said:
>Speaking of LNAME.  Can anyone tell me what the history of this package
>is?

From LNAME INSTALL :

>For historians and genealogists.
>--------------------------------
> This package is an offspring of the NAME package distributed by Nyshare
>at Weizmann.

From the MAILBOOK discussion :

>Date:         Tue, 24 Mar 87 11:10:33 +0100
>From:         "Alain FONTAINE (Postmaster - NAD)" <FNTA80@BUCLLN11>
>Subject:      LNAME package.
>To:           MAIL/MAILBOOK distribution list <MAILBOOK@EB0UB011>
>Reply-To:     "Alain FONTAINE (Postmaster - NAD)" <FNTA80@BUCLLN11>
>
> From time  to time,  I have seen  people asking here  for a  NAMES file
>utility allowing  the definition  of userids and  nodeids longer  than 8
>characters.  I  have  been  working   on  a  package  wich  offers  this
>possibility, and  other significant  improvements. This  is an  offer to
>distribute   it    for   evaluation   to    any   postmaster/NAD/systems
>programmer/TECHREP, following  several months of  testing at a  few Rel3
>and Rel4 installations.
> For  those  knowing of  the  NAME  package  distributed by  NYSHARE  at
>WEIZMANN : this package is a 90%  rewrite of the former, but still based
>on the 'define your own screen if you want' concept.
> Please  answer directly  to me  and  not to  the  list (I  *did* put  a
>Replyto: tag in the header, but please verify...). /AF

No real mystery, proper credit given...                     /AF