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GNU Finger 1.35 released
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Author: bson
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:12
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GNU Finger 1.35 is available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu
[18.71.0.38], in the file pub/gnu/finger-1.35.tar.Z.

This release fixes some serious installation problems in 1.34. It also
includes a .dvi version of the manual, as well as a `support/BUGS'
file extracted from the "Bug Reports" node of the manual.

      [ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well.  Please try them
	before prep.ai.mit.edu!  thanx -gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu

	Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
	Australia: archie.au:gnu
	Europe: ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu,
	  ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
	  ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
	  ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, ftp.funet.fi, archive.eu.net
	United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp.cs.widener.edu,
	  uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
	  ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu

	For information on how to order GNU software on tape, check
	the file etc/DISTRIB in the GNU Emacs distribution, or e-mail
	a request to:	gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
      ]

Below is the `news list' from the announcement of 1.34.


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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