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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where?
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Date: 31 May 91 13:06:46 GMT
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In article <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper) writes:
>Eudora - a great POP client from Steve Dorner at U of Illinois. Some slight
>         quirks with Sys 7 but nothing major.
>I've yet to see -
> - a finger client

This script will turn Eudora's ph window into a finger window.  Finger formats
vary a bit; this script is looking for a standard bsd finger.  Making it
more general would be simple; just delete the line with "/^Login"
in it.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Written by Steve Dorner, UIUC, 1991.
#
# This program looks like qi to Eudora's ph window, but really just does
# finger.  If you don't want to install qi, this will get you at least
# a little functionality out of the ph window.
#
# You'll need this in /etc/services:
#	ns	105/tcp	
# And this in /etc/inetd.conf:
#	ns	stream	tcp	nowait	nobody	/<path>/fingerqi fingerqi
# (you must of course make <path> be the path to this script.

#
# no buffering, please
$| = 1;

#
# grab name, strip lf, sanitize
$_ = <>;
chop;
tr/|;<>//;

#
# execute finger
if (!open(FINGER,"/usr/ucb/finger " . $_ . "|"))
{
  print "500:Botched!\n";
  die;
}

#
# pass the response
$curNum = 0;
while (<FINGER>)
{
  chop;
  if (/^Login name:/) {$curNum++;}
  printf "-200:" . $curNum . ": ". $_ . "\n";
}
print "200:Ok.\n";

#
# read and respond to Eudora's quit
<>;
print "200:Bye.\n";
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner