finger @@@@@@@@
Dan Lanciani
ddl at husc6.harvard.edu
Mon Nov 14 08:03:53 AEST 1988
In article <968 at uhnix1.uh.edu>, mkkam at menkae.cs.uh.edu (Francis Kam) writes:
| I tried:
| % finger @@@@@@@@@@@@@
| on a sun 3/50 running SunOS4.0 and got as many finger processes running
| as the number of '@' at the command line.
|
| That might not be a bug, but quite undesirable to me.
If you find it undesirable, then don't type it. Sorry, I couldn't
resist... In any case, this is not a bug but a combination of two features.
For a long time the target of a remote finger could itself be a remote
finger. This is extremely useful for getting to systems on different
networks, e.g., finger @oz at xx.lcs.mit.edu when oz was a real chaos net
host. In Sun OS 4.0, the null hostname appears to be treated as the
local host so you see the @@@@ effect. In any case, please don't
fix the former feature...
Dan Lanciani
ddl at harvard.*
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