Hello Brad, you said:

>On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 01:17, David Smith wrote:

>> I joined this group on 14 December, but have yet to see any messages. Is
>> anyone there?

>Yes, but this is a very quiet list.  Very few new users these days, so
>very few problems to solve.

>> I have recently started using my (registered) copy of Genesis, and,
>> although almost everything seems to work perfectly, upon connection Genesis
>> always warns that it "could not obtain the host name for this machine". I
>> have tried many different tweaks to the prefs but have not stumbled upon
>> the correct one to prevent appearance of this message. What am I missing?

>Either enter hostname in Genesis Prefs in the "Interface/Resolv" tab,
>or, as I did, create the EnvVar HOSTNAME, either in User-StartUp, r by
>writing it to ENVARC:  Like you, with a previous ISP, I had the same
>problem.  Nothing "broke" as a result of the `error' but it was an
>annoyance.

Thank you. The first suggested remedy worked.

David Smith
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Old age is always 15 years older than I am.


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