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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:58:11 -0600
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Organization: Softweyr LLC
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To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>,
	Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>,
	"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>,
	Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: New resource on freefall.
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David Kelly wrote:
> 
> Thomas Gellekum writes:
> > Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes:
> > >
> > > No.  But I think it would be reasonable for people to add their own in
> > > realtime to ${HOME}/.icbm. :-)
> >
> > Format?
> 
> I think its in printcap(5)-like format like this:
> 
> David Kelly|N4HHE:\
>         :lat=N34:47.780:\
>         :lon=W086:45.147:\
>         :mail=dkelly@hiwaay.net:\
>         :www=http://home.hiwaay.net/~dkelly:

This type of information -- phone number, office location, etc., is
typically kept in the password file gecos field.  See passwd(5) for 
more information.  The FreeBSD chpass(1) program currently asks the
user for an "Other information" field, we can supply three sub-fields 
for lattitude and longitude in decimal degrees (North and East as 
positive values) and altitude in decimal meters.  Example:

	wes@homer$ chpass

You see the followin in your EDITOR:

	#Changing user database information for wes.
	Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
	Full Name: Wes Peters
	Location: Great Salt Lake
	Office Phone: 801.915.2061
	Home Phone: 
	Other information: 40.55/-111.90/1470.77

The resulting gecos field is:

	Wes Peters,Great Salt Lake,801.915.2061,,40.55/-111.90/1470.77

This seems more "UNIXy" to me.

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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