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- finger <username[@host]> [<username[@host]> ...]
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- Issue a network 'finger' request for <username> at <host>.
- Finger is typically used to find out specific information about
- users on local or remote hosts. By fingering a user, you can
- find out such information as a user's name, his mailing address,
- telephone number, QSL information, and other useful facts. This
- information is kept in a separate text file for each user.
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- As our network expands, this application will help hams find out
- information about each other quickly and efficiently.
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- The finger command under NOS can be issued in any of the
- following three ways:
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- finger <username> >> Examples: finger n8fow
- finger <username>@<host> finger n8fow@n8fow
- finger @<host> finger @n8fow
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- The first form of the command is used to find out information
- about a user at the local host, namely your own system. It is
- useful for testing 'finger' on a system that you know is running.
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- The second form of the command is used to find out information
- about a user at a remote host.
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- If you don't know the name of a particular user at a remote host,
- you can use the third form of the command. This command returns
- a list of all 'finger' files on the remote system.
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- To enable the finger server so that others may query the users on
- your system, you must give the 'start finger' command.
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