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From: paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: finger on AIX3.1
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Date: 19 Apr 91 18:15:47 GMT
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Looks like it's my day to be noticing things...

"finger" (or "f") on AIX3.1.3003+ seems to only return the _first_
match it finds in /etc/passwd.  BSD tends to return _all_ such matches
(something I prefer).   Was this a design decision (read: "feature"),
or just an oversight (read: "bug")?  

-- 
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu