Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:35:54 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), adf@fl.net.au, olah@cs.utwente.nl, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP Message-ID: <199603120135.RAA03399@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:38:08 MST." <199603112038.NAA03837@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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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. :-)
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