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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: prevent paralell modem connection
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 12:51:56 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601071013.LAA05759@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 7, 96 11:13:18 am
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> > > > They have doc'ed the field usage in the file format.
> > > 
> > > Where?  In BSD/OS 2?
> > 
> > In passwd(8).  But that's just from 2 week old memory.
> 
> You still forgot to mention in which o/s.  We don't have a passwd(8),
> only passwd(1) [no mention of this], and passwd(5):
> 
> ...
>            class     User's general classification (unused).
> ...
>      The class field is currently unused.  In the near future it will be a key
>      to a termcap(5) style database of user attributes.

"They" referred to "BSDI" previous in the same thread.

I thought it was passwd(8) on BSDI.

In any case, their main pages are online (find them with a search
engine) via www by one of their users.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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