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 Lines: 14 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