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- From: rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas)
- Subject: Re: GNU finger
- In-Reply-To: ehmeier@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:05:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <RV.92Jul22135143@vegas.cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:51:43 GMT
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- In article <Brspxt.19o@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, ehmeier@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Erich Meier) writes:
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- > ...
- > Therefore I implemented the cfinger-"protocol" on top of Sun's RPC
- > mechanism. That makes finger much more reliable and faster, too. I
- > also fixed a few bugs and made extentions to GNU finger. For
- > coordinating my changes with the GNU finger developers, I tried to
- > communi- cate with the author and failed. So maybe I'll release my
- > own version.
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- > If you're interested in my version, drop me a line.
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- THIS is the meaning of free software! it's great to see the process
- working *smile*. yay GNU!
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- rodrigo_vanegas@brown.edu
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