GCOS field (Was re: Difference among different UNIX versions)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <411 at maxim.ERBE.SE> prc at ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes:
>In article <1257 at vsedev.VSE.COM>, logan at vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
>> Does anyone know what GCOS really stands for and where it came from?
>Or what the BSD and AT&T GCOS field formats are?

Anything not containing a newline or colon.

Unfortunately, some mail software thinks the field needs to contain
specific user ID information.  What this is expected to look like
would depend on your mail system.