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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Elya Kurktchi wrote:

> has PH functionality as well as finger built into it already).  I use FBSD
> 3.0-971003-SNAP with about 7,250 users on one machine and when you finger 
> a user on that machine, it is rather slow; but Ph will provide more 

  finger is slow because it iterates through the entire passwd file.  This
is very slow, and produces a lot of results (often too many to be useful).

  I have replaced finger with a different finger that only looks for exact
matches, unless you end the search sting with a "+".

Tom