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- Finger
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- The finger service can tell you a great deal of information about
- anyone using the Internet. In fact, some special finger services
- have been set up around the Internet to provide quick reference
- to critical information.
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- To get full information about people logged in on the same system
- as you enter the command finger.
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- To get specific information about a certain user, enter the
- command: finger [userid].
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- To get information about someone using a remote computer enter
- finger [email address]. For example, finger clinton@whitehouse.gov.
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- If you use a text editor to create a file in your home directory
- called ".plan" and ".project" these files will be displayed when
- you are fingered. (The dot before the file name is very important.
- This won't work unless you name the file including the dot.)
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- Try fingering the following services to get some really
- interesting information:
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- finger To Find Out About
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- jtchern@sandstorm.berkeley.edu Baseball scores/standings
- aurora@@xi.uleth.ca Northern lights
- quake@scec.gps.caltech.edu S. Cal. earthquake data
- quake@geophys.washington.edu General earthquake data
- nasanews@space.mit.edu Nasa press releases
- forecast@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu Atlantic hurricanes
- drink@csh.rit.edu Coke machine at RIT
- @sdsu.edu Directory info. at SDSU
- @ucsd.edu Directory info. at UCSD
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- As the last two lines above indicate, many institutions have
- attached phone directory help to the finger service. This
- is often a good way to find out how their systems work.
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- Related Unix Commands:
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- who Shows users currently logged in to your system
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- talk Sets up two way screen talk between you and the
- party to which you wish to talk. Use it like:
- talk [userid]. If the party is on a remote computer
- issued the command: talk [email address], like:
- talk tgray@coyote.csusm.edu.
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- ytalk Same as above, but allows multiple parties.
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