Re: GNU Finger
> Could someone please tell me what the phrase, "The GNU Finger server
> available for Debian" means.
This seems to have become an FAQ.
Peter Tobias said:
> Old netbase packages had a GNU finger entry (commented out by default)
> because someone wanted to create a GNU finger package (but never did) for
> the Debian distribution (>0.91). That's the only reason for this entry.
> Back in the old 0.90/0.91 days GNU finger was part of the Debian
> distribution so Bill might use the old diffs to create a GNU finger package
> himself.
>
> Peter
>
> PS: There is also a new finger program which is based on GNU finger. Its
> name is ICSI finger and it can be found at smorgasbord.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
> in the directory /pub/ai/stolcke/software.
>
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