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Article #32GNU Finger 1.34
From: bson
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 23:44
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 23:44
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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.
[ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well. Please try them
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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.
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