Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, adf@fl.net.au, olah@cs.utwente.nl, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <199603121740.JAA13988@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199603120135.RAA03399@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 11, 96 05:35:54 pm
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> > > From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> > Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP > > It seems that Andrew Foster said: > > > And yet the old finger works fine, as does fingering from most other host > >>s > > > I've tried. > > > > Finger has been changed (or fixed :-)) to use T/TCP recently... > > "Fixed" is subjective. It saves one response packet and loses > interoperability. 8-(. > > It interoperates fine with non-broken TCP implementations. I'm really glad > that finger was chosen... of course, it should have been DOCUMENTED. :-) > And an option added that disables the use of T/TCP so that a user can finger a broken TCP system. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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