From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 29 2:45:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lugh.relay.co.uk (lugh.relay.co.uk [194.72.177.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A97B14F0E for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 02:45:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrochester@enetgroup.co.uk) Received: from raku.enetgroup.co.uk ([194.72.178.7]) by lugh.relay.co.uk (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2D08; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:45:17 +0000 Content-Length: 656 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991128031403.N19490@abc.123.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:49:16 -0000 (GMT) From: John Rochester To: Kai Voigt Subject: RE: finger(1) not RFC compliant Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Nov-99 Kai Voigt wrote: > When entering "finger user@remotehost", finger has to send > "/W user\r\n" to the remotehost. Instead, it sends "user\r\n" without > the leading "/W ". > > In chapter 2.3, RFC 1288 defines a non recursive finger query as > > {Q1} ::= [ {W} | {W} {S} {U} ] {C} I am sure this is a typo in the RFC. If you look at the meaning of "/W", it does not make sense for it to be optional for the Q2 (recursive) query, but not optional for Q1. BSD finger properly only adds the /W when finger -l is used. ---- John Rochester Java Developer, e-Net Software, Bath, UK john.rochester@enetgroup.co.uk jr@cs.mun.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message