Different uses of the 5th field of the passwd file.

[Chris Bradley]

In article <1990Nov6.045108.20266 at riacs.edu> samlb at pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCS) writes:
>
>	As far as I know, every UNIX implemetation handles the so-called
>GCOS field differently -- the Ultrix 'finger' command uses the info there
>to produce display one way, Suns do it another, and SGI machines yet a
>third.  There is really no "standard" meaning for the contents of this
>field -- it is just "sorta used for names".
>

What is the `real' acronym?  I've seen both `GCOS' (in this thread) and
`GECOS' (in the docs for C News, I think)?

What is the correct expansion of the acronym?

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