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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:23:59 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Kai Voigt <k@123.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: finger(1) not RFC compliant 
Message-ID:  <25819.943871039@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Nov 1999 03:14:04 %2B0100." <19991128031403.N19490@abc.123.org> 

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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}

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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