Telling Others About Yourself

If you are a new customer and ran the "whois" command with your login
name, you will likely see something like the following that lists for
customer jones:

world%   whois jones
-User-     --Full name--           Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones    Terry A Jones                7 q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                        r4  annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                      5 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
  [142,142]  ;  Group: jones  Shell: /bin/tcsh
  Groups: jones

  jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM

To change the information presented in the "Full name" field, use the
"chfn" command:

world% chfn 
Changing real name for jones
Old name: Terry A Jones
New name: T. A. Jones
world% whois jones
-User-     --Full name--           Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones      . T. A. Jones                q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                      6 r4  annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                     20 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
  [142,142]  ;  Group: jones  Shell: /bin/tcsh
  Groups: jones

  jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM

  Plan: (last modified Wed 14-Dec-94 9:33PM)
        
   
If you were interested in providing even more information about
yourself, such as your telephone number, office location and schedule,
you would need to create a .plan file in your home directory
containing this information.  For example, jones' .plan file contains
his job description, so that if other customers issued a "whois jones"
command, the following would appear:

        
   world% whois jones
-User-     --Full name--           Idle TTY -Console Location-
jones      . T. A. Jones                q82 annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                      6 r4  annex (Virtual Terminal)
                                     20 r18 annex (Virtual Terminal)
  [142,142]  ;  Group: jones  Shell: /bin/tcsh
  Groups: jones

  jones has no new mail, last read Wed 14-Dec-94 9:22PM

  Plan: (last modified Wed 14-Dec-94 9:33PM)
        
        Adam L. Jones
	Communications Specialist
	ABCD Broadcoat Inc.
	Cableville, MD 12335

Please note, you must provide "read" access to "other" for the .plan
file for this to work. 

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