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From: c60b-1eq@web-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: Finger logger: several questions
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Date: 13 Apr 91 02:58:15 GMT
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In article <41042@netnews.upenn.edu> mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes:
>I've been following the thread on finger logging programs, and was wondering
>if there is any way to determine the login name of a remote fingerer, or

No, you can't do that.

>at least the name of the calling system.  Ultimately, I'd like to be able

You can get the name of the calling system.

>to fetch the full name of a remote user, ie. (Mark A Fontana), so that
>I could extend a customized greeting to foreign fingerers as well.

You're out of luck then.

>I've been playing with the snip of code posted here a few days ago, but I'd
>like to expand it a little.  If you have a custom finger program/finger 
>logger that works well for you, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd mail
>me a copy.  If there is interest, I'll post a summary.

It's in the mail.

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