Sun's OS 3.2 `finger' (was Re: why learn UNIX)

[mangler at cit-vax.UUCP]

In article <797 at smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV>, earle at smeagol.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) writes:
> [...] can't understand why Sun changed the last field
> of the finger output to `Where', and only uses it to display remote hostnames
> for users logged in remotely.

For hardwired terminals, why not display the terminal location in this field?

I suggest this because cit-vax has a file /etc/ttywhere containing this
information, a holdover from long ago, when someone might have actually
implemented this.

Don Speck   speck at vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck