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From: mangler@cit-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun's OS 3.2 `finger' (was Re: why learn UNIX)
Message-ID: <1734@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 05:03:22 EST
Article-I.D.: cit-vax.1734
Posted: Sun Feb  8 05:03:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 02:09:46 EST
References: <1993@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1035@sfsup.UUCP> <297@hscfvax.UUCP> <797@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: tty location

In article <797@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV>, earle@smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
> [...] can't understand why Sun changed the last field
> of the finger output to `Where', and only uses it to display remote hostnames
> for users logged in remotely.

For hardwired terminals, why not display the terminal location in this field?

I suggest this because cit-vax has a file /etc/ttywhere containing this
information, a holdover from long ago, when someone might have actually
implemented this.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck