Different uses of the 5th field of the passwd file.

[Sam Bassett RCS]

	As far as I know, every UNIX implemetation handles the so-called
GCOS field differently -- the Ultrix 'finger' command uses the info there
to produce display one way, Suns do it another, and SGI machines yet a
third.  There is really no "standard" meaning for the contents of this
field -- it is just "sorta used for names".


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