I'm not sure if your argument is for or against the environment variable.

Only the environment variable will make a difference when finger is
called from a script or a binary.  The alias will not make it that far.

This why we must look at something in the environment.  If looking at
LC_CTYPE/LANG is not acceptable, I think a generic FINGER variable for
any "default" options would be better than FINGER_OPTION_I=YES.

+ Kim


| From:    Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
| Date:    Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:23:00 +0900
|
| >>>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:13:20 GMT,
| 	Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us> said:
|
| > Maybe we could "export FINGER=-i" and have finger look at that for
| > flags, just like less, more, pg and many other programs do.
|
| Well... if a system administrator (or a user) can set an environment
| variable FINGER=-i, he can set an alias finger="finger -i", at
| same place, too.
| --
| soda
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