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GNU Finger 1.34 is available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu
[18.71.0.38], in the file pub/gnu/finger-1.34.tar.Z. This is the only
public release of GNU Finger since 1.0b.

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The following is a list of changes from GNU Finger 1.0b to 1.34.

  o  Lots of bugs have been fixed -- far too many to mention here.

  o  Changes to messages and output formatting.

  o  Mugshot support has been dropped. These parts will be redone in a
     future release. The code is included, but currently unsupported.

  o  Port to PC/RT.

  o  Port to SVR4.

  o  Special target ``.help'' to list special targets supported
     by the finger server. A target is something you can finger,
     such as a user name or mailing list.

  o  Special target ``.site'' to describe a site - the organization
     it belongs to, geographic location, who manages it, and other
     relevant information.

  o  Configuration greatly simplified - uses GNU Autoconf 1.1.

  o  Code made more robust.

  o  Option syntax changed to adhere to current GNU standards. Long
     option ``--port'' added to explicitly specify a port or service
     to use.

  o  Prints message if .plan file exists but is inaccessible.

  o  Added support for .project file, similar to .plan.

  o  If the user fingered has a .fingerrc script, then it will be
     executed and the normal finger output piped through it. The
     output of the script becomes the output of finger.

  o  Documentation has been improved.

  o  Support for site-defined special targets. These are scripts
     that are run when the corresponding target is fingered. The
     two targets ``.site'' and ``.help'' are such scripts.

  o  User mail forwarding is reported.

  o  Accepts finger requests for mailing lists.