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- From: bson@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- Subject: [gnu.announce] GNU Finger 1.35 released
- Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug
- Date: 6 Sep 1992 08:25:17 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
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- Archive-name: auto/gnu.announce/GNU-Finger-1-35-released
-
- GNU Finger 1.35 is available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu
- [18.71.0.38], in the file pub/gnu/finger-1.35.tar.Z.
-
- This release fixes some serious installation problems in 1.34. It also
- includes a .dvi version of the manual, as well as a `support/BUGS'
- file extracted from the "Bug Reports" node of the manual.
-
- [ Soon to be at these ftp sites as well. Please try them
- before prep.ai.mit.edu! thanx -gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
- Australia: archie.au:gnu
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- ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
- ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
- ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, ftp.funet.fi, archive.eu.net
- United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp.cs.widener.edu,
- uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
- ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu
-
- For information on how to order GNU software on tape, check
- the file etc/DISTRIB in the GNU Emacs distribution, or e-mail
- a request to: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
- ]
-
- Below is the `news list' from the announcement of 1.34.
-
-
- The following is a list of changes from GNU Finger 1.0b to 1.34.
-
- o Lots of bugs have been fixed -- far too many to mention here.
-
- o Changes to messages and output formatting.
-
- o Mugshot support has been dropped. These parts will be redone in a
- future release. The code is included, but currently unsupported.
-
- o Port to PC/RT.
-
- o Port to SVR4.
-
- o Special target ``.help'' to list special targets supported
- by the finger server. A target is something you can finger,
- such as a user name or mailing list.
-
- o Special target ``.site'' to describe a site - the organization
- it belongs to, geographic location, who manages it, and other
- relevant information.
-
- o Configuration greatly simplified - uses GNU Autoconf 1.1.
-
- o Code made more robust.
-
- o Option syntax changed to adhere to current GNU standards. Long
- option ``--port'' added to explicitly specify a port or service
- to use.
-
- o Prints message if .plan file exists but is inaccessible.
-
- o Added support for .project file, similar to .plan.
-
- o If the user fingered has a .fingerrc script, then it will be
- executed and the normal finger output piped through it. The
- output of the script becomes the output of finger.
-
- o Documentation has been improved.
-
- o Support for site-defined special targets. These are scripts
- that are run when the corresponding target is fingered. The
- two targets ``.site'' and ``.help'' are such scripts.
-
- o User mail forwarding is reported.
-
- o Accepts finger requests for mailing lists.
-
-