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- From: rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Patten)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: "Catching Peppers" program
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 11:32:40 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
- Lines: 36
- Approved: me
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- bm@shadow.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
-
- >>>>>> On 15 Jan 1993 10:08:40 GMT, rasas@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg
- >>>>>> Patten) said:
-
- >Greg> friedenb@egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
-
- [..stuff about a script which catches peepers..]
-
- >Well, I tried this a while back, and (assuming a standard finger
- >program!) only a limited subset of "cases" is possible.
-
- >What we did was run a program which created a FIFO called (surprise!)
- >~/.plan
-
- [..informative spray..]
-
- >Alas, I can't use that program any more since FIFO's don't work over NFS
- >so when people finger me from other than my home machine (one of dozens)
- >their finger process doesn't wake up the program hanging off the fifo.
- >Sigh.
- >--
- >Blair MacIntyre --- bm@cs.columbia.edu --- CS Department, Columbia University
-
- I did some fiddling and found that if my .plan was a pipe and I fingered
- myself I got: .plan is not a regular file so I'm not going to show it to you..
- or something similar. Any ideas?
-
- Sigh.
-
- Greg.
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