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From: daedalus!kovar@husc4.harvard.edu (David Kovar)
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Subject: Output from "ac" runs together
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Date: 30 May 89 16:30:05 GMT
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  When I run ac over my wtmp files, I tend to get output that looks like
this:

        s89aa008101.61      (Account name is "s89aa008")
        s89ad002  4.24
        jkahng    9.89
        s89ad000  4.36
        s89ad003132.50      (Account name is "s89ad003")
        wade     12.51
        s89aa003 29.69
        s89ad008 71.95
        s89aa004226.27      (Account name is "s89aa004")

Any account names that are eight characters long run into any time fields
that are three digits wide on the left side of the decimal point. This
makes parsing the output with awk a tad difficult. Does anyone have a
patch or a new copy of ac that will fix this problem?

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