Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:08:07 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Kai Voigt <k@123.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger(1) not RFC compliant Message-ID: <19991129120807.B37610@abc.123.org> In-Reply-To: <25819.943871039@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <19991128031403.N19490@abc.123.org> <25819.943871039@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 03:14:04 +0100, Kai Voigt wrote:
>
> > In chapter 2.3, RFC 1288 defines a non recursive finger query as
> >
> > {Q1} ::= [ {W} | {W} {S} {U} ] {C}
> >
> > where {W} is "/W", {S} one or more spaces, {U} the username and {C}
> > is "\r\n".
>
> Are you sure that the notation used in the RFC does not define elements
> prescribed within "[" and "]" as optional? My reading of the rvalue
> quoted is:
>
> Must be one of:
> {C}
> {W} {C}
> {W} {S} {U} {C}
correct, but this means that you have to specify "/W " when doing a
user query. Which FreeBSD does not.
Kai
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