Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tardis.ohio-state.EDU!frank From: frank@tardis.ircc.ohio-state.EDU (Frank G. Fiamingo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: FINGER HP800's (?) Message-ID: <532@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 16:25:28 GMT References: <47500018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.EDU (Frank G. Fiamingo) Distribution: comp Organization: The Ohio State University (IRCC) Lines: 20 Len Saaf writes: > But, of >course, the HP can't finger other machines. Does anyone have a >finger.c (not fingerd.c) that has this capability? ... Yes, I have one that I ftp'ed from hemuli.atk.vtt.fi. They advertised it as a port of the BSD source to HP-UX. And it is. I found that it installed quite easily on an HP840, and I then made a few minor changes to have it check a user's mailbox for unread mail. I can e-mail you a copy if you'd like. ------------------------------------------ Frank Fiamingo, Instruction and Research Computer Center of the Ohio State University frank@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu ------------------------------------------