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From: istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: SysV versions of finger and last, with lastlog.
Keywords: A bug is a bug is a bug...
Message-ID: <300@hhb.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 14:26:33 GMT
Organization: HHB Systems, Mawah, NJ
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Thank you very much, Greg A. Woods for posting the source; finally
I was able to figure out why our Ultrix V2.2-1 (source-less) 'finger'
kept dumping core.  One of the gecos fields in /etc/passwd was
    xxyyzzy_mail_only_account

changing 'char buffer[20]' to 'char buffer[BUFSIZ]' in matchcmp()
while certainly an overkill, eliminated the problem once and for all.
Wouldn't it be nice if everybody could agree on a max string size
like 'ANSISTR 512'?

Speaking of ANSI, cpp barfed on '#ident'.  (Is '#ident' ANSI?)  Had to
comment it out to compile.
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        Istvan Mohos
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