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From: szeto@aludra.usc.edu (Johnny Szeto)
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Subject: finger anomalies
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Keywords: FINGER

When I use the command 'finger' in my shell script,  I discover a weird problem
The thing is whenever finger cannot find a certain host it returns unknown
host on the standard output rather than on diagnostic output and the status
is 0 signifying a success operation.  I really feel bothered by it.
Can someone explain?