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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!tmonroe From: tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: what is rgrimes?? Date: 18 Jul 1994 18:56:32 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 15 Message-ID: <30ej90$k8b@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <Ct55E2.A1v@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <30edo4$q3p@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu In article <30edo4$q3p@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: >Jacques Legare (jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca) wrote: >: In most of the system supplied text files there is a header >: with a date and usually with an attribution to Berkeley. It >: mentions rgrimes, what is rgrimes? > >If you mean the RCS header, rgrimes is probably the UID of the >individual who last revised the file you're reading. It happens to be the login name of one Rodney Grimes. If he would like to introduce himself, then he will. But he's the one responsible for the strange login names in all those files where "rgrimes" appears. Tony