jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) (12/21/90)
Being an only half-happy user of ksh-88e, I'd like to email some bug reports to the author of ksh, David Korn. People say to send it to [...]att!ulysses!dgk, but I get the same results just by sending it to /dev/null. Anyone know what's going on? In case you care, the two bugs that bug me are: 1 - A cd to the parent of a directory in CDPATH fails, e.g. if xxx is in my CDPATH, then cd xxx/.. should take me to xxx's parent. Many moons ago, this used to work... Now it doesn't. 2 - The first shell command in a sessions fails to properly enter into the command history file. It's there, but somehow it's mangled by stuff in the profile file. Thanks. -- Unix/C Library Staff, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, (415)823-UNIX (8649)
mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay) (12/21/90)
In article <8425@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>, jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes: > Being an only half-happy user of ksh-88e, I'd like to email some bug > reports to the author of ksh, David Korn. People say to send it to > [...]att!ulysses!dgk, but I get the same results just by sending it to > /dev/null. Anyone know what's going on? try mailing to david.g.korn@att.com or att!david.g.korn; that should seek him out *wherever* he lurks. i've heard that ksh88f is in the works, with bug fixes. dunno what they are... -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Ragged Individualist | You just have _N_O idea! It's the difference | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | between _S_H_O_O_T_I_N_G a bullet and _T_H_R_O_W_I_N_G it! | a.d.hay@att.com +------------------------------------------------------+
morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) (12/22/90)
In article <8425@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes: >Being an only half-happy user of ksh-88e, I'd like to email some bug >reports to the author of ksh, David Korn. People say to send it to >[...]att!ulysses!dgk, but I get the same results just by sending it to >/dev/null. Anyone know what's going on? > AT&T has an email directory service. I thought there would be sufficient interest in this to warrant posting, rather than emailing to Joe..... If you send electronic mail to "Shmo@att.com", one of two things will happen: - If there is only one AT&T employee online with the last name "Shmo", your mail will be forwarded to him. - If there are several employees named "Shmo", you will recieve via return email a listing of all of them, with their email addresses. You can refine your search by using first names and middle initials <if known>. You can, therefore, send mail to: Shmo@att.com, or Joe.Shmo@att.com, or even Joe.B.Shmo@att.com DISCLAIMER: This information came from postmaster@att.att.com about eight months ago. This service worked as advertised at that time. I can't vouch for its current status. -- | Wes Morgan, not speaking for | {any major site}!ukma!ukecc!morgan | | the University of Kentucky's | morgan@engr.uky.edu | | Engineering Computing Center | morgan%engr.uky.edu@UKCC.BITNET | Lint is the compiler's only means of dampening the programmer's ego.
msb@hosmsb.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger) (12/28/90)
>>>>> On 21 Dec 90 18:59:09 GMT, morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) said:
morgan> You can refine your search by using first names and middle initials
morgan> <if known>. You can, therefore, send mail to:
morgan> Shmo@att.com, or
morgan> Joe.Shmo@att.com, or even
morgan> Joe.B.Shmo@att.com
morgan> DISCLAIMER: This information came from postmaster@att.att.com
morgan> about eight months ago.
The additional "att." is unnecessary -- "postmaster@att.com" is OK,
just like the above addresses.
morgan> This service worked as advertised at that time. I can't vouch
morgan> for its current status.
It still works! Unfortunately, lots of parents named their kids
without thinking about the importance of unique identifiers :-)
Some additional help:
o the directory search is case insensittive (i.e. "M.Balenger" or
"m.balenger")
o "." or "_" works for separators (i.e. "m_s_balenger" or
"m.s.balenger"
o "~" is some kind of fuzzy match (i.e. "balenger~") but watch out,
this can be a voluminous multi-match (359 entries, 99 unique last
names in this case -- matching such seemingly useful hints as
belanger, ballenger, bellinger, billinger, billingham, but also some
seemingly unrelated ones, too: bilmazes, blonsky bowling, blunk, and
blomgren)
o /state=nj, /area=201 (as in area code), /exch=949 (as in phone
exchange), /ext=8789 (as in phone extension), /zip=07733 (as in postal
zip code), /zip=077 can be useful to limit the match if such
demographic info is known. (i.e. balenger/area=201, or
balenger/zip=077). Notice that zip being a prefix match is sometimes
useful.
Hope this helps you to "Reach out and grep someone"!
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