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From: mbt@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Brad Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .plan
Message-ID: <889@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 05:04:57 GMT
References: <2620@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1966@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <474@escom.com> <28607@news.Think.COM>
Reply-To: mbt@bridge2.3Com.com (Brad Turner)
Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA
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In article <28607@news.Think.COM> barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <474@escom.com> al@escom.com (Al Donaldson) writes:
>.......[stuff deleted]........... The only
>general solution is to fix the OS so it doesn't send control sequences
>except when the application really wants them.

Well the only problem is that "finger" is an application and it really
does want to send whatever is in the .plan file to your tty. 

Given the open nature of UNIX might it be better for the system adminstrator
to put finger in a shell script which pipes it's output to strings?
Just an idea...

-brad-

P.S. I know this is treating the symptom and not fixing the problem.


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