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- Subject: Re: Finger
- Message-ID: <Stafford-221192161447@stafford.winona.msus.edu>
- From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
- Date: 22 Nov 92 16:19:43 -0600
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- In article <01GRE2AV0WPE0000EV@techno.isc.rit.edu>,
- ECLDCO@techno.isc.rit.edu (Eric Loyd - Data Center Operations, x7320)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > As long as we're on the subject of finger, here's my three cents worth:
- >
- > 1) The OWNER field of the UAF entry that finger gets
- > contains (at our site) a social security number
- > as well as a "name". We'd like to be able to modify
- > the finger source to print only the name, and strip
- > the first nine characters (the sosh).
-
- Curious. Why do you put that info there to begin with? I suspect
- it is for some record-keeping function. Unfortunate because SYSUAF.DAT
- has a free area which you can use for such purposes.
-