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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Objection to annonymous postings
Message-ID: <6305@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 16:19:05 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6305
Posted: Mon Dec  3 16:19:05 1984
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
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> > > the original settings which came with this userid are
> > > NAME='mensch' ; ORGANIZATION='Purdue University Computing Center').
> > 
> > After reading this, I immediately tried setting "ORGANIZATION" to my
> > true organization name (USAMC ALMSA), exporting it, and doing a postnews.
> > The header remained as it has always been (see above)....
> 
> Before posting this, i exited fropm vnews, did a
> 		setenv ORGANIZATION "ICE STATION ZEBRA
> and got back in to vnews. It works for me.
> -- 
> Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support

What I had tried originally was the plain old VARIABLE=value and exporting
that works on TERM, NEWSARCHIVE, and suchlike variables. It doesn't seem
to do anything. On this system, "setenv" is "not found" unless I do a "csh"
first, and I really didn't want to bother with a lower-running shell just
to read news. "set", by itself, lists a lot of variables and their values,
including both those I set in my .profile and others, set I suppose as
system defaults. I tried "set ORGANIZATION "USAMC ALMSA"" but saw no effect
from this, either without or with a following "export ORGANIZATION" command.
"man set" and "man setenv" get nothing here, so I am working in the dark.

I'll try putting the ORGANIZATION="USAMC ALMSA" and "export ORGANIZATION"
in my .profile and see if that helps.

(This system runs the BRL version of 4.2 BSD, if that helps determine
what variant of this variable-setting business should work.)

Will Martin

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