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- From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
- Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.100650.9235@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:03:39 GMT
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- >From article <1992Jul23.032058.3292@reed.edu>, by nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar):
- >
- >> Dunno, but Ultrix finger joyfully screws up on user "@". Try "finger
- >> @@some.ultrix.machine.army.mil" - it's quite fun.
- >
- >Only if you use DEC's old, ancient, decrepit, (oh, and BROKEN) finger.
- >(It's a real "neat" screwup, too! :-) ) Seems like most DEC sites don't
- >even use their own software anymore. Interesting.
-
- So what's supposed to happen? I'm running a system with standard ULTRIX
- (other than modified FTP), and all this does is a full finger of the
- passwd file of the remote system. Is that the screwup? What should it do
- instead?
-
- #ken :-)} Jeratol the Chaotic
-
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