Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: GCOS field (Was re: Difference among different UNIX versions) Message-ID: <9050@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 2 Dec 88 22:35:25 GMT References: <17641@adm.BRL.MIL> <8980@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8516@elsie.UUCP> <1257@vsedev.VSE.COM> <411@maxim.ERBE.SE> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 In article <411@maxim.ERBE.SE> prc@ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes: >In article <1257@vsedev.VSE.COM>, logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes: >> Does anyone know what GCOS really stands for and where it came from? >Or what the BSD and AT&T GCOS field formats are? Anything not containing a newline or colon. Unfortunately, some mail software thinks the field needs to contain specific user ID information. What this is expected to look like would depend on your mail system.