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From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: user name in /etc/passwd GCOS field
Message-ID: <88Apr17.115204edt.26990@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 88 22:20:29 EDT

In article <8855@eddie.MIT.EDU> wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) writes:
>The standard format on System V seems to be, thanks to the vanilla passwd
>file packaged with it, junk-Full Name(junk). Revolting, isn't it?

Especially fun when some programs take the first half of my given name to be
the "junk" (I have an hyphen in my name, like millions of people of French,
German, Swedish descent -- not to forget pre-pinyin Chinese spellings).

The fun part is that at least it shortens my name to Francois Lamy, which is
the correct familiar form.  Better than all the humans who insist on calling
me John...

Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science           lamy@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4              uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy