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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: where does RCS get the user name from?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:42:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fzuz2tk6.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uu1jijbfx.fsf@telestoconsulting.com

Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> writes:

> I am trying to use RCS. When I lock a file it seems to work but shows
> that the file is EHartnett. How does it know my name? I never set that
> anywhere...
>
> How do I tell emacs and RCS what my user name is, so that they both
> argee as to who I am?

It probably uses `user-login-name' or `user-real-login-name'.  Try 

   `M-x apropos-value RET EHartnett'

to learn which variables have the value "EHartnett".

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-22  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-19 22:44 where does RCS get the user name from? Ed
2002-10-22  0:42 ` Jesper Harder [this message]

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