How do I change my "full name" which is on the 7th line of my identification
when I type "finger mcpoz?"  When I entered this at initial sign on, I put
my first name, middle name (don't laugh) but no last name.  I have tried
several recommended commands but it remains chiseled into granite.
Please advise.
Thanks

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That info is stored in your .plan file.  Use whichever editor
you like and change it.

(Given that your .plan isn't permitted for anyone else to
read, though, it does seem like a moot point.  >8)

Indeed, the rest of the world does not see whatever you're seeing:
> $ finger -m mcpoz
> Login: mcpoz                                  Name: Marc Possley
> Directory: /u/mcpoz                   Shell: /b
> On since Sat Apr 15 16:02 (EST) on ttyh0, idle 0:08
> No unread mail
> No Plan.
You probably said you were paranoid about people reading this info, so
we can't.

When someone first signs on (especially without a reference) you have
no idea what kind of a group you are giving this info to.  It seems like
it has the potential to be used other than for info.

Thanks, Dave, for the note #2 above.  How did you print the info as a 
new response?

There's a program    script   which does most of it (though, actually,
I was a hair more roundabout).  You can probably read a manpage on it,
but briefly: if you say      script somefilenameofyourchoice
it will thereafter record what you type, & what comes to your screen,
in the file you specified.  (Probably deletes any existing file?)  When
you eventually do an exit from that shell, the collection terminates.
With the output of this, go in with your favorite editor & remove header
& tailer garbage, if you like.  I also put '> ' at the beginning of
every line (easy to do, in vi) just to make the whole response
simpler to read.

*Whatever* you're using to edit your response, you should be able to read
in material from a prepared file, but the procedure will vary a bit.

Ok, I'll try it.  Thanks.

I Copy, and Paste into the editor (just in case....).

Rane, that's *cheating*.  And besides, the emulator I'm using at the
moment doesn't support that stuff - have to do a screen snapshot to
disk, shell out, edit it, & then do an ASCII file transfer.  Bleah.

Heh heh (smug expression: B^]).

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Well, that's actually how I did it, as it happened.  But script is a useful
program to know, and the on-th-fly awk program I piped through would
only have been confusing, I think.  As usual with Unix, if you can do it
at all you can do it in myriad ways.

(What does "tee" do?)

"tee" is like a | pipe, but it split the output and sends
it to two different programs.

Not quite -- it sends it to the standard output and also to a file
of your choice.  So if you use it in a pipeline, as in

                sort filename | tee save | more

you'll get a sorted version of 'filename' both displayed on the screen
and saved in a file named 'save'.

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             tee
    stdin >------o----> stdout
                  \
                   \--> file

I always thought unix was based on plumbing. Does it have an "el", too?

<grin>

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