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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Finger
- Message-ID: <921120204717.37000222@TGV.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:47:17 PST
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- > As long as we're on the subject of finger, here's my three cents worth:
-
- > 1) The OWNER field of the UAF entry that finger gets
- > contains (at our site) a social security number
- > as well as a "name". We'd like to be able to modify
- > the finger source to print only the name, and strip
- > the first nine characters (the sosh).
-
- > 2) The plan file that finger prints _could very well_ contain
- > nasties that wreak havoc with terminals that are looking
- > for the right thing. I believe that filtering _this_
- > information is what would be useful.
-
- MultiNet V3.1 FINGER does filter the local plan file when it reads
- it. MultiNet V3.2 will also filter what it receives from the network
- when FINGERing another machine.
-
- Ken
-