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From: harper@csc.fi (Rob Harper (Supercomputer Centre Finland))
Newsgroups: bionet.users.addresses
Subject: Putting the FINGER in....
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.215319.1@csc.fi>
Date: 4 Oct 90 21:53:19 GMT
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I got some mail asking me about the CPQ NAMES on BITNET. 
It would appear that Chris Condon's "BITNET for the Complete Idiot"
might be a timely posting to Bionaut since it is a classic document
on what you can do on Bitnet... and for you inquisitive souls with
access to UNIX then you can use the FINGER command to acheive
the same results as CPQ NAMES on BITNET. For example if I want to check
who is on GENBANK.BIO.NET I can finger them from Finland.
I would appear that Dave Kristofferson is such a busy man that
he has to have two sessions running at the same time:-)

sun4 /csc/harper 5> finger @genbank.bio.net
[genbank.bio.net]
Login       Name              TTY Idle    When    Where
ryals    Julie Ryals           p0 2:53 Thu 07:56  ig-tipa.ig.com
lear     Eliot                 p1  22: Tue 15:35  molto.ig.com
nina     Nina Robinson         p2 1:01 Thu 06:31  poppy.ig.com
consult  IntelliGenetics Cons  p3 5:42 Thu 06:32  poppy.ig.com
lynch    Conrad Lynch          p4      Tue 14:34  cell.lanl.gov
will     Will Nelson           p5   23 Wed 07:58  sparky.bio.net
rdiaz    Ron Diaz              p6    5 Thu 09:16  yoda.ig.com
kristoff David Kristofferson   p7    2 Thu 10:23  karyon.bio.net
will     Will Nelson           p8 3:36 Wed 07:51  sparky.bio.net
kristoff David Kristofferson   p9    4 Thu 10:23  karyon.bio.net
nguyen   Tan Nguyen            pb    6 Thu 11:44  allegro.bio.net

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