finger on AIX3.1

Pat Wilson paw at eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Sat Apr 20 04:15:47 AEST 1991


Looks like it's my day to be noticing things...

"finger" (or "f") on AIX3.1.3003+ seems to only return the _first_
match it finds in /etc/passwd.  BSD tends to return _all_ such matches
(something I prefer).   Was this a design decision (read: "feature"),
or just an oversight (read: "bug")?  

-- 
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw at northstar.dartmouth.edu



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