Sun 4.1.1 'biff y' problem :-(

Tue Jan 29 08:32:42 AEST 1991

shahryar at eris.berkeley.edu (Persian Nightmare) writes:

>I have a problem with the 'biff y' command on our Sun 4.1.1 system.  Ever
>since we have switched to Sun 4.1 OS, I have never been able to get the
>'biff y' command to work.  The weird thing is that only a few users does
>this command work for, and for some it doesn't {including our Sys Admin}.

I sent a source-code bug fix to Sun. It is filed as bug id 1047697.

If memory serves (and it's been several months) the problem affects users
with 8 character usernames.

David M. Katinsky
dmk at pilot.njin.net, dmk at njin.BITNET, {njin, rutgers}!dmk