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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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