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From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: FINGER HP800's (?)
Message-ID: <4324@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:14:27 GMT
References: <47500018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1275@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <1275@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes:
>We have "finger" running on all our HP9000/300 and 800 series workstations.
>It is shipped with HP-UX.  Since "finger" is included in the manual I
>don't see why it shouldn't be supported by HP.  Of course, there is still
>problems with phone numbers having non-US format in the GCOS field but
>that may perhaps be considered as a minor nuisance.

Yes, but the finger HP ships is a *local-host only* version.  The
program that usually is known as "finger" is able to contact finger
daemons on remote hosts.  In fact, that is what it usually is used
for.  After all, normally you see the users on your local machine each
day and can ask them face-to-face what (.)plans they have and what
(.)projects they are involved in.
-- 
Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK