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Subject: Re: Sun's OS 3.2 `finger' (was Re: why learn UNIX)
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Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 18:32:50 EST
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>For hardwired terminals, why not display the terminal location in this field?

The 4.3BSD manual page for TTYS(5) says:

	If the line ends with a comment, the comment is included in
	the "ty_comment" field of the ttyent structure.

and, in the examples it gives, shows office names in the comment
fields on some lines.  (S5 uses a similar hack; if the command line
on an "/etc/inittab" entry contains a comment, the text of the
comment is printed by "who" for that line.)  The 4.3BSD "finger"
doesn't use this, but it's a (fairly) simple change to make "finger"
use it.