Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!pyrnj!dasys1!jpr From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: GCOS field Message-ID: <7996@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 04:03:40 GMT References: <17641@adm.BRL.MIL> <8980@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8516@elsie.UUCP> <8990@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8517@elsie.UUCP> <9003@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1257@vsedev.VSE.COM> Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) Organization: TANGENT Lines: 19 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? In my flavor of unix, that's described as the "Comment" field. In volume 1 of the Unix Programmer's Manual, the old green books, that field was listed as GCOS job number, box number, optional GCOS user-id and the manual page went on to state: The GCOS field is used only when communicating with that system, and in other installations can contain any desired information. Elsewhere in the old green books, I get the implicit, not explicit, information that GCOS referred to a typesetting system at Murray Hill at the time that Osanna & Co. were inventing troff. -- Jean-Pierre Radley Honi soit jpr@dasys1.UUCP New York, New York qui mal ...!hombre!jpradley!jpr CIS: 76120,1341 y pense ...!hombre!trigere!jpr