Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Objection to annonymous postings Message-ID: <1021@houxm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 14:35:47 EST Article-I.D.: houxm.1021 Posted: Sun Dec 9 14:35:47 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:37:20 EST References: <6305@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 37 Here is a way to get NAME and ORGANIZATION variables into your postings: If you are using /bin/sh, put these lines into your .profile: export NAME ORGANIZATION NAME="the name you want to be called" (use quotes if you intend to leave whitespace in the text) ORGANIZATION="whatever organization, real or imagined, you wish to be asso- ciated with" To actually get these into your new environment, you must either log out and log back in again, or type: . .profile at the shell command level. (Note: if your PATH does not include ., you may have to type . ./.profile.) If you are using csh, put these into your .cshrc (.login is ok, I guess, if you're on 4.? BSD): setenv NAME "something or other" setenv ORGANIZATION "something else" You'll have to do a source .login after you're done, or type them to csh. It works for me. Good luck. If those don't work, your machine has probably hard-wired NAME and ORGANIZATION into inews, and the getenv() calls were commented out. Good luck. -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo