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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Longer user names: take 2
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Terry wrote:

>> > I made the change to ps.  It now outputs with a width of "USER" or
>> > the largest active name, whichever is greater.  Ah, to have the
>> > column space back!
>> 
>> Definitely!  Nice job, thanks.  Committed.
>
>But I feel dirty... user space code is so ...trivial.

Terry's secret shame:  Userland fixes.  "Hi, my name's Terry, and I fix
userland code.  I first realized I had to fix userland code when ..."


Shamefully,


Brian