[tech] Re: [wheel] FMS Installation

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 09:29:27PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> This sparks an evil thought on how to implement FMS on each OS - vipw is
> a surprisingly (for *NIX) common interface.  To do the FMS updates, you
[...]
> EDITOR=fmspwedit vipw
[...]

Ooooh. Funky.

A previous version of add_ucc worked by setting EDITOR=ed and piping the
appropriate command to append a new line into it. vipw took care of the
locking, etc.

However - _that_ looks good, at least as one possible interface.

Nick.

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