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From: scarton@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: /usr/ucb/u - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 00:03:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 00:03:48 1984
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inmet!scarton    Mar 27 16:56:00 1984

I believe that the `/usr/ucb/u' command is nothing more than a link
to the `w' command with a different name.  If you look at the source
to `w', it sets the variable firstchar to the first character of the
command name.  If firstchar == 'u', it then only prints the header
information displayed by `w'.  Two commands for the price of one.