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From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: finger.el
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Date: 21 Jul 89 17:57:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 21 Jul 89 17:16:58 GMT

In article <GRUNWALD.89Jul21121442@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) writes:
   I had also done a finger command once, and the someone pointed out
   that ``M-!finger user@foo'' did the same thing.

Nope, these little toys make TCP connections directly from Emacs to
the fingerd port on some remote machine.  They don't invoke a shell
and an application on your local machine.