Re: ampersand in GECOS field

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Author: Tim Cutts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: ampersand in GECOS field
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > For example from the passwd(5) manual page on SunOS-4:


[snip]

> Never noticed that before. It's the same in SunOS-5 (Solaris 2) in fact.


[snip]

> (a) I will look at as many Unixes as I can to see if this "&" usage is
> common, and if it is, I suppose Exim should support it.


IRIX certainly does.

[snip]

> (c) Hmm. Why does Exim call it "gecos" rather than "gcos"? Where did I get
> that from, I wonder? I'll check up on that too.


Both IRIX and Linux man pages call it gecos. Perhaps it's Sun being odd?

Tim.

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