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From: marcotte@acsu.buffalo.edu (Brian Marcotte)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm and & in GCOS field of passwd file
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Date: 12 Oct 90 17:10:02 GMT
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In article <1284@n_kulcscs.kuleuven.ac.be> dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) writes:
->Elm interprets an '&' in the GCOS field of an entry in the password file
->as the corresponding user name _in upper case_.
->
->We would like to propose to use the same interpretation as finger(1)
->does, i.e. capitalizing _only the first character_ of the user name.
->
->What do other people think?

I'd like to see this fixed to. There is no reason to have it in ALL
upper case. I have never seen another program that does this.

- Brian Marcotte