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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 17:52:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net>
To: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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Subject: Re: Finger anomaly in 2.2
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Dave Babler wrote:

> be working okay again... with one exception: finger. 
> 
> I've made no changes to inetd.conf but now when you use finger to list
> users on a system ('finger @somewhere.com'), all it returns is the remote
> system name. I went through the archives and noticed this problem

Try typing:

	finger -T @host.com

Specifically, the -T option disables the use of T/TCP extensions.
Apparantly, 2.2x and greater (and many BSD implementations I've heard)
changed something about finger which causes it not to connect perfectly
with older daemons.  Until everyone updates their finger daemons, use the
above and it should work fine. <G>

Jaime Bozza
Nucleus Communications, Inc.