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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: finger doesn't (try to) find remote hosts
Message-ID: <12759@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 22 Jul 89 01:49:05 GMT
References: <89@lkbpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <89@lkbpyr.UUCP> leif@lkbpyr.lkb.se (Leif Ljung) writes:
>Although fingerd is there and the setup seems ok  finger(1)  
>ignores any command lines in the form of   user@other-host.

	I suspect that the Pyramid finger(1) is a remnant of 4.2BSD.  
Installing the 4.3BSD finger(1) works just fine.  I suspect (with a little
inside info :-) that it's fixed in OSx 5.0.

>--Leif Ljung
>leif@phlux.lkb.se||uunet!mcvax!sunic!lkbpyr!leif

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