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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: /usr/hosts
To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 23:13:21 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199607180552.XAA28368@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jul 17, 96 11:52:39 pm
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> : >     Is /usr/hosts deprecated?
> : 
> : For which purpose?  Or do you mean /etc/hosts?
> 
> An old hack where you'd put /usr/hosts in your path and populate it
> with symlinks to all the machines you use.  These symlinks would point
> to rsh.  If rsh was started as a command not named rsh, it would use
> that command name as its machine name.  You could therefore login with
> just a 'rover' and do an ls on rover via 'rover ls'.
> 
> To answer the question, yes, it still should work.

Yes, I've previously checked the rsh sources and verified this.
However, I was inquiring as to whether some *other* technique
is now "en vogue" instead of this... (hence my question about
whether it was "deprecated")

Thanx!
--don