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finger <username[@host]> [<username[@host]> ...]
Issue a network 'finger' request for <username> at <host>.
Finger is typically used to find out specific information about
users on local or remote hosts. By fingering a user, you can
find out such information as a user's name, his mailing address,
telephone number, QSL information, and other useful facts. This
information is kept in a separate text file for each user.
As our network expands, this application will help hams find out
information about each other quickly and efficiently.
The finger command under NOS can be issued in any of the
following three ways:
finger <username> >> Examples: finger n8fow
finger <username>@<host> finger n8fow@n8fow
finger @<host> finger @n8fow
The first form of the command is used to find out information
about a user at the local host, namely your own system. It is
useful for testing 'finger' on a system that you know is running.
The second form of the command is used to find out information
about a user at a remote host.
If you don't know the name of a particular user at a remote host,
you can use the third form of the command. This command returns
a list of all 'finger' files on the remote system.
To enable the finger server so that others may query the users on
your system, you must give the 'start finger' command. The finger
files that provide information on a <username> are located by
default in \finger (see Fdir and Fdbase in nos.cfg), and are
ordinary ASCII files created by the sysop. Also, if the SAM or
QRZ callbook server is configured, <username> is looked up in the
callbook and displayed if the search is successful.
Certain <username> strings are taken to mean that a Jnos function
should be invoked to display system information, depending on
what configuration options were used to build the server Jnos:
<username> config_opt output_same_as
conf CONVERS conference bridge /WHO
links CONVERS conference bridge /LINKS
mhold HOLD_LOCAL_MSGS 'mbox holdlocal'
mstat MAILBOX 'mbox mailstat'
mpast MAILBOX 'mbox past'
users MAILBOX 'mbox status'
usersdat USERLOG 'finger x' forall users in users.dat
mailfor MAILFOR 'mbox mailfor'
info ALLCMD 'info'
ax25 AX25 'ax25 stat'
aheard AX25 'ax25 heard'
netrom NETROM 'netrom stat'
iheard all 'ip heard'
memstat all 'mem stat'
socket all 'socket'
tcpview all 'tcp view bytes'
asystat ASY 'asystat'
pkstat PACKET 'pkstat'
rip RIP 'rip stat'