On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> > > rasputin:*:<UID>:<GID>:Rasputin,,,:<HOMEDIR>:<SHELL>
> > >
> > > (if you leave your phone nunmber, etc blank)
> > >
> > > This 'trailing comma' pattern looks a bit rough in mails, etc.
> >
> > Strange. What applications? For example, pine doesn't include my ",,," in
> > my name (even though it is in gecos field.)
> 
> /usr/bin/mail on systems with exim, at least.

Curious question. What does your systems do if you *do* have more
information in gcos? Add all of it?
What a weird mailer you seem to have...
/usr/bin/mail (the one in NetBSD) don't do this, that much I know. Neither
does pine, or mm, or any other mailer I've played with.

	Johnny

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