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Subject: Re: Excelan tcp/ip interface for FINGER wanted
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 00:38:26 EST
Article-I.D.: PSUECLB.861
Posted: Mon Nov  2 00:38:26 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 01:08:30 EST
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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>       Has anyone modified Rich Garland's FINGER program (for VMS systems) to
>use EXCELAN's tcp/ip programming interface?
>
>       Specifically, the FINGER program includes a function, Tcp_Finger,...

I wrote a little program that uses Excelans programming interface...I call
it RFINGER.  It was some problems, like stupid DCL upcasing arguments
to the program.  Note that this is a seperate program and is not part
of the regular finger command...I did this for two reasons...one, I
didn't want to figure out how finger works and change the sources, and
two, It would take a very long time for finger to search its various
databases to find the node you want assuming I did include it in finger.

RFINGER goes directly to the network, and for our local nodes is pretty fast
compaired to regular finger.

>
>       Additionally, if you've written an incoming daemon for VMS FINGER,
>that would be interesting too!

I also wrote an incomming daemon that calls Rich Garlands finger program
(I have no idea whether it would work with the new version of finger).
Try finger @psuecl (128.118.5.4) and hopefully you'll see it work!

If you want copies of this stuff let me know, and I'll mail it to
you, or should I post it to this news group or maybe some other one?

Does anyone have a 'shar' program for VMS.. I normally don't deal with
VMS sources...