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- Finger 3.1: a Windows Sockets Finger Client
- by Lee Murach Internet: lee@nrc.com, CompuServe: 71161,651
- Tel: (805) 484-2128
-
- Overview
-
- Finger 3.1 is a Windows Sockets finger client. You may use
- Finger to query for users on a remote host. The Finger 3.1
- distribution builds two finger clients: Finger and MFinger.
- These clients have the same user interface, and differ only
- in their network interface; Finger uses Berkeley style
- synchronous blocking calls, whereas MFinger uses the
- asynchronous WS extensions.
-
- Contents
-
- makefile The make file for building the distribution.
- finger.c M/Finger's user interface. This module processes
- all user input, and displays query results and
- errors.
- dsplist.c The 'display list' module that enables the network
- module to hand off the finger query results in a
- form that is meaningful to the user interface
- module.
- netwrkm.c Mfinger's network module. It isolates the network
- interface from the rest of the program, and uses
- asynchronous WS calls to query the remote host.
- netwrkb.c This is Finger's network module and has the same
- external call interface as netwrkm.c, but uses
- Berkeley style synchronous (blocking) WS calls.
- *.ico This is "dirty Bert," the finger icon, and is a
- matter of hysterical convention.
- other.ico Can be used in place of finger/mfinger.ico, if you
- prefer a more conventional icon.
- *.def The .def file describes executable output to
- linker.
- finger.dlg Contains definitions of dialog boxes.
- finger.rc Specifies resources.
- readme.* You're reading it now.
- m/finger.exe The executables.
-
- Requirements
-
- To run Finger, you'll need access to a remote host which
- runs a finger server.
-
- Since finger dynamically links to the winsock DLL and
- builds with the winsock.h, .def, and .lib files, you'll
- need a TCP/IP implementation that provides a Windows
- Sockets interface.
-
- The 3.1 distribution was built with the Microsoft C/C++
- 7.0 compiler and the Windows1 3.1 SDK.
-
-
- Release Notes
-
- The netwrkm.c module now calls WSAAsyncSelect() with FD_READ
- | FD_CLOSE flags in order to detect the end-of-stream.
- Actually, the module considers the zero recv() return to be
- the definitive indication of end-of-stream.
-
- Netwrkm.c now checks for the WSAEWOULDBLOCK error that
- connect() usually returns. This isn't actually an error,
- but merely indicates that the connection request is still
- pending completion.
-
- The host dialog now (optionally) queries for a user login
- id, along with the host name/address.
-
- The 3.0 Mfinger would crash if given a host IP address.
- This has been fixed.
-
- The release now builds for Windows Sockets rev 1.1, by
- default.
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