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1.1       root        1: .TH USERINFO 5 1/22/80
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: userinfo \- per-user database of personal information
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: ~/.userinfo
                      6: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      7: The
                      8: .I \&.userinfo
                      9: database contains a set of miscellaneous information
                     10: about each user.
                     11: It is formatted as a sequence of lines
                     12: of the form ``field-name: value''.
                     13: .I Field-name
                     14: must begin in the first column,
                     15: but there may be spaces before or after the colon.
                     16: Spaces in the value field may be significant or not,
                     17: depending on the semantics of the particular field.
                     18: Fields may be in any order.
                     19: Case in field names is ignored.
                     20: .PP
                     21: The following fields are defined:
                     22: .IP name \w'office-address'u+3n
                     23: The user's full name.
                     24: .IP office-address
                     25: The user's office address.
                     26: .IP office-phone
                     27: The user's office phone number.
                     28: .IP home-address
                     29: The home address;
                     30: lines of the address are separated with semicolons.
                     31: .IP home-phone
                     32: The home phone number.
                     33: .IP forward-to
                     34: The address to forward any incoming mail to.
                     35: .IP project
                     36: The project that this user is associated with.
                     37: .IP advisor
                     38: This user's advisor or supervisor.
                     39: .IP affiliation
                     40: A business or technical affiliation
                     41: (for outside users).
                     42: .PP
                     43: Other fields may be defined as needed.
                     44: .SH EXAMPLE
                     45: .nf
                     46: NAME: Eric Allman
                     47: Forward-To: ingres:eric
                     48: home-phone: (415) 843-9461
                     49: office-address: 380 Cory
                     50: office-phone: 2-7520
                     51: Project: INGRES
                     52: Advisor: Mike Stonebraker
                     53: .fi
                     54: .SH SEE\ ALSO
                     55: finger(1), delivermail(8)

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