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- CWRU Finger © 1995-1996 Kevin Yuchao Cao Freeware.
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- • Contents
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- What Finger Does Using Finger How It Works Limitations Small Print The Author
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- • What Finger Does
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- Finger is a Macintosh implementation of the Un*x Finger protocol that allows you
- to finger anyone in the world.
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- • Using Finger
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- You must have MacTCP2.0 or above installed in order to use either of these
- applications.
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- To use CWRUFinger, first launch Finger and choose Finger… from the File menu.
- Enter the machine name and (optionally) the user name of the person you wish to
- finger (Note: If you have used unix, you may prefer to type user@machine into
- user field. You can choose to query either a Finger server or a Whois Server by
- clicking the Whois radio. Then Click the Search button.
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- For Example: You want to know your friend's full name, but you only have his/her
- email address.
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- Type in User Field: kyc2 Click Search Button. The server will return information
- about this person.
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- If you know his/her first or last name, you can find out more about this person
- by using Whois option.
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- Type in User Field: Kevin Click Search Button. The server will return information
- about all the Kevin in the database.
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- • How It Works
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- When you choose Finger from the File menu, it will ask you for a machine and user
- name. It will then attempt to find the machine, open port 79 (or 43 for the
- Whois Server), and send the username to it. Then it will display whatever
- information the remote machine returns.
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- • Limitations
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- CWRU Finger probably requires System version 7.0 or higher and MacTCP v2.0 or
- later. If the return information exceed the window size, you can choose Save
- Reply as Text in File menu. I recommend BBedit as your text editor. TeachText
- or Simple Text do not wrap correctly with certain reply information. (Certain
- finger servers' reply messages use \n as end of line. TeachText and SimpleText
- will do a new line only with \r.)
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- • Small Print
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- This program is Freeware. There is absolutely no cost to use this program. You
- MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE this program on any disk costing more than $5 without my
- explicit permission.
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- • The Author
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- Kevin Yuchao Cao. I am a student in Case Western Reserve University right now.
- This is my first formal Macintosh Application. Please forgive the typo and errors
- in my program. If you do discover bugs, please email me at kyc2@po.cwru.edu
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- Thank you for using CWRU Finger. I hope you enjoy it.
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