@origin

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2k2ap$7ij at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Ken <integerx at hotmail.com> wrote:
>what does it do?

Do you mean $ORIGIN?  It sets the default domain suffix, to be used for
names that don't end in ".".  It's also what the @ special name expands to.

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