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The Finger Utility
(C) Tom Hughes 1995
0. Copyright
The FreeNet module and application and the tools and documentation
that go with them are all copyright. They are however released as
freeware subject to certain terms and conditions. These are described
in the file named 'Licence' which should have accompanied this
document.
1. Introduction
The finger client is a command line tool that can be used to get
information about users of remote computer systems using the finger
protocol defined by RFC1288.
2. Command syntax
The program takes a single command line argument that specifies the
query to be performed. There are two basic formats that this argument
can take. The first is the following form:
finger @host.subdomain.domain
This will ask the specified host to provide a listing of users who
are currently logged on to the system, with one user per line in
the resulting listing.
The second format is used to obtain information about a specified
user, and is as follows:
finger user@host.subdomain.domain
This will return information about the user, typically including
information about their full name, the last time they logged on,
the last time they read mail and so on. There is usually also some
user supplied information appended to these details.
There is also a single switch (-l) that can be given to finger to
make it request a more verbose listing from the remote host. This
may include more information, but it depends very much on what the
remote host chooses to support.