Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin 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 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:33:57 EST References: <1875@nsc.UUCP> <639@pucc-k> <6188@brl-tgr.ARPA> <373@grendel.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 32 > > > 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 USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA