Naming the System

system string

Specify the remote system name. Subsequent commands up to the next system command refer to this system.

alternate [string]

Start an alternate set of commands (see section Defaults and Alternates). An optional argument may be used to name the alternate. This name will be recorded in the log file if the alternate is used to call the system. There is no way to name the first alternate (the commands before the first alternate command).

default-alternates boolean

If the argument is false, any remaining default alternates (from the defaults specified at the top of the current system file) will not be used. The default is true.

alias string

Specify an alias for the current system. The alias may be used by local uucp and uux commands, as well as by the remote system (which can be convenient if a remote system changes its name). The default is to have no aliases.

myname string

Specifies a different system name to use when calling the remote system. Also, if called-login is used and is not `ANY', then, when a system logs in with that login name, string is used as the local system name. Because the local system name must be determined before the remote system has identified itself, using myname and called-login together for any system will set the local name for that login; this means that each locally used system name must have a unique login name associated with it. This allows a system to have different names for an external and an internal network. The default is to not use a special local name.

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