Subject: Re: trailing commas in GECOS field with chfn
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/12/2002 11:14:30
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:58:33PM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> afaik, those commas have been there for a looong time. it might be
> easier to fix the mail client that's getting it wrong. if it knows to
> look up gecos, it ought to know to look for commas in it.
I agree. About the only application I've seen that did NOT handle them
was some obsolete SunOS4.0.x application. 10 years ago, when I was young.
-is
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