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- From: Keith.W.Johnson@tek.com (Keith W. Johnson)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Finger
- Message-ID: <Keith.W.Johnson.22.721965538@tek.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:58:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.133456.9310@abo.fi>
- Sender: news@shaman.wv.tek.com
- Organization: Tektronix, Computer Graphics Group
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- In article <1992Nov16.133456.9310@abo.fi> HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC) writes:
- >From: HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC)
- >Subject: Finger
- >Date: 16 Nov 92 13:34:56 GMT
- >Hello Multinetters!
- >
- >I'd like something "lighter" than Multinet Finger to answer incoming
- >finger-requests over tcp/ip. Does anybody have something simple just
- >showing logged in users, that could replace the Multinet finger ?
- >Or are there any non-documented switches that I could use :-)
-
- I'm not sure what you mean by "lighter". I use FINGER locally on my VMS
- machine with no arguments so it shows all current users. It used to work
- fine then suddenly became very "heavy", taking two or three minutes before
- I control-Y'ed out of it. Later I discovered that with version 3.1 it
- now does a cluster-wide search, which was slows it down unless you specify
- the /NOCLUSTER option. Just type "$ FINGER /NOCLU". I'm not sure how you
- control that for incoming requests over the net, though.
-