Subject: Re: finger(1) hostname printing
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/28/1995 10:40:07
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> Back in the _old_ days, finger would print out the hostname after it
> looked it up, but would only print the newline when it had connected.

.. and this broke when line-buffering was added to stdio; the whole
thing wouldn't be printed until after the connect succeeded.

I know I added an "fflush()" at the appropriate place to at least one
version of finger, but I don't think that ever made its way back to
Berkeley.

						- Bill

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