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Article #4748Re: user name in /etc/passwd GCOS field
From: Jean-Francois Lamy
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1988 02:20
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1988 02:20
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In article <8855@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes: >The standard format on System V seems to be, thanks to the vanilla passwd >file packaged with it, junk-Full Name(junk). Revolting, isn't it? Especially fun when some programs take the first half of my given name to be the "junk" (I have an hyphen in my name, like millions of people of French, German, Swedish descent -- not to forget pre-pinyin Chinese spellings). The fun part is that at least it shortens my name to Francois Lamy, which is the correct familiar form. Better than all the humans who insist on calling me John... Jean-Francois Lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science lamy@ai.toronto.edu University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.questions Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!lamy From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) Subject: Re: user name in /etc/passwd GCOS field Message-ID: <88Apr17.115204edt.26990@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, AI group References: <1361@lznv.ATT.COM> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 88 22:20:29 EDT