Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!jmsellens
From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Newsgroups: uw.unix
Subject: Re: /usr/hosts
Message-ID: <16621@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 89 21:49:29 GMT
References: <33@vlsi.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Distribution: uw
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <33@vlsi.waterloo.edu> peregier@vlsi.waterloo.edu (Phil Regier) writes:
>Is it just
>there so that users can put it in their path and thus be able to use
>the machine name as an alias for rsh/rlogin commands

I think that's the only reason.  Kind of silly when you have a large
number of hosts around:
  % decomment