is that some kind of "my first cpp program"? if not i think it's pretty useless. all the information that program can provide is available with a few oneliners :-)
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The program is pretty useless when using it from a unix shell. Finger does almost the exact same thing; however, unlike finger the program was not designed for basic command line usage. Its to be used as a simple backend for webbased scripts(PHP, PERL, etc). For instance, calling the program:
<? `usrinfo -wu name` ?>
is only going to return the unix ID, not all the extra stuff finger returns. Basically it elimates parsing and extra coding in such cases.
-aaron
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is that some kind of "my first cpp program"? if not i think it's pretty useless. all the information that program can provide is available with a few oneliners :-)
The program is pretty useless when using it from a unix shell. Finger does almost the exact same thing; however, unlike finger the program was not designed for basic command line usage. Its to be used as a simple backend for webbased scripts(PHP, PERL, etc). For instance, calling the program:
<? `usrinfo -wu name` ?>
is only going to return the unix ID, not all the extra stuff finger returns. Basically it elimates parsing and extra coding in such cases.
-aaron