From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:03:08 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX? In-Reply-To: <20171219190509.794961F96E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> References: <20171219190509.794961F96E@orac.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: <837bbe68-c13f-c31c-eb3b-123ff708f2c4@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> On 12/19/2017 12:05 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Grant, Hi Ralph, > Computer for its original purpose. And computer again when things like > finger(1) would take it apart. As well as reading the above page, > there's http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/GECOS.html Thank you for the Jargon file link. It clearly indicates that the GECOS field held the GECOS user ID. So I guess at some point we transitioned from the GECOS user ID to the comma delimited format that we use today. I suppose it was after there was no longer a need to store GECOS user IDs. -- Grant. . . . unix || die -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3982 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: