finger-1.37 and forwarding addresses

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From: Cliff Krumvieda
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 08:54

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Howdy:

GNU finger 1.37 doesn't seem to be displaying forwarding information
from ".forward" files correctly.  Here is ~plg/.forward from our
system:

======================================================================
cliff
segre
======================================================================

Although this works for us, i.e., plg mail is forwarded to both cliff
and segre, finger-1.37 claims that:

======================================================================
% finger plg

Cool Programming Languages (plg)
Home: /usr/u/plg
Shell: /usr/local/noshell
Mail forwarded to cliff.
...
======================================================================

In particular, it doesn't mention anything about segre.  Finger works
fine if ~plg/.forward contains the single line "cliff,segre"; is it
reading only one line instead of all of them before EOF?

						--Cliff Krumvieda

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Message-ID: <9210301854.AA17691@ask.cs.cornell.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.cornell.edu!cliff

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.cornell.edu!cliff
From: cliff@cs.cornell.edu (Cliff Krumvieda)
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Subject: finger-1.37 and forwarding addresses
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Date: 30 Oct 92 08:54:08 GMT
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