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Short: Fully featured finger client (MUI)
Author: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Uploader: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
Type: comm/tcp
Replaces: comm/tcp/MUI-Finger12.lha
Introduction
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My first TCP/IP client with a GUI, MUI-Finger, turned out to be much more
popular than I ever had imagined. I personally thought it was pretty crap,
but I didn't do anything about it until now. mFinger is a complete rewrite
of MUI-Finger, only a few lines of code has survived. A good deal of code
and ideas has been borrowed from my WeatherExperience client. The major
difference is the way networking is handled. In WeatherExperience I used a
cumbersome way of making the socket I/O 99% asynchronous, mFinger uses a
subtask instead which gives a cleaner design and 100% asynch operation.
Requirements
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· AmigaOS 2.04 or higher
· MUI 3.6 or higher, with the NList.mcc custom class installed (included)
· A TCP/IP stack (like AmiTCP, Miami, As225, Inet225 or mlink)
Features
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· Nice and userfriendly MUI GUI.
· Locale.
· Asynchronous network operation, the GUI is never locked and you can abort
a finger request at any time.
· A horizontal scrollbar and clipboard support (both curtesy of NList.mcc).
· ARexx support. Currently has three commands: Finger, Abort and Clear.
· Nice popup addresslist with two columns, buttons for adding, removing,
sorting, etc. addresses as well as drag and drop sorting.
· Displays a status text indicating what it is doing and a Busy object while
fingering.
· Uses its own icon as an appicon when iconified.
· Can take a commandline argument of an address to finger.
What more could you possibly want in a finger client?! :)
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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1238 821 33.6% 27-Nov-96 20:06:02 mFinger.info
1760 917 47.8% 28-Nov-96 00:21:52 +mFinger.catalog
1742 895 48.6% 28-Nov-96 00:38:14 +mFinger.catalog
3117 970 68.8% 28-Nov-96 00:29:18 +Install mFinger
1934 1053 45.5% 27-Nov-96 20:06:02 +Install mFinger.info
4212 2090 50.3% 27-Nov-96 18:47:58 +NFloattext.mcc
74872 37869 49.4% 27-Nov-96 18:47:58 +NList.mcc
6468 3100 52.0% 27-Nov-96 18:47:58 +NListview.mcc
14372 5498 61.7% 27-Nov-96 18:47:58 +NListviews.mcp
17544 8356 52.3% 27-Nov-96 20:22:12 +mFinger
10114 4346 57.0% 28-Nov-96 00:20:20 +mFinger.guide
1857 1340 27.8% 27-Nov-96 20:06:02 +mFinger.guide.info
1571 1192 24.1% 27-Nov-96 20:06:02 +mFinger.info
1351 698 48.3% 26-Nov-96 17:49:22 +mFinger.AMIRX
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