Gnames reformats a class list provided by the University's student record system into a form suitable for the grading programs.
gnames [file]
Gnames reads a class list in the "official" format -- typically produced by the Faculty of Arts and Science -- and produces a list of names and student numbers in the format required by the grading programs. The output goes to the standard output. After you add a header, the new list will pass glint.
Gnames is unlike most of the other grading programs (except, partly, goldtonew) in that it does not work on an existing grades file, and its output (before you add a header) is not a grades file either.
If no file is specified, gnames takes its input from the standard input.
Gnames warns you about lines that appear not to contain a valid student enrolment record, and then continues. If it finds a line in which the student number is in a different position from the previous line containing a valid student number, it gives up, since it probably has become confused about the input format.
Gnames is very similar to the old grading program fixnames. However, it does not reformat for CDF account requests, because those are now handled automatically in almost all cases. Consequently, it has no command-line options.