Bug in finger.c

Warner Losh imp at solbourne.com
Sat Jun 1 04:46:38 AEST 1991


In article <2405 at amix.commodore.com> ag at amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>The Plan and Project files are restricted in that they must be one
>line and not contain characters that may cause terminals to do weird
>things.

With the exception of the one line limit, I agree with you here.
What's wrong with having a two or three line plan?  I have seen
teachers use it to list phone numbers/prefered accounts for e-mail,
etc.  I have even seen some people use it to indicate if they are
actually logged in or not.  However, there should be some protection
against unprintable stuff in the plan/project files.

Warner
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