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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.
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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.