Re: uname.sysname

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 16:59

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Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)

In article <125382@uunet.UU.NET> ernest@pegasus.dsg.tandem.com (Ernest Hua) writes:
>What is the real story?

The real story is that sysname and nodename were inadequately specified,
so different vendors did different things with them.  Sorry.


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