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    From lkh@lkh@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Fri Jul 15 17:48:03 2022
    Hi,

    so after I've set up my .plan and .project on the pubnixes I use, I
    tried to look up myself from my arch linux laptop. But surprise, there's
    no finger program on arch ... bummer!

    Anyone know where to get finger for linux? sources would be best.

    Google fu didn't yield much ...

    Cheers,

    lkh
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Fri Jul 15 20:38:39 2022
    <lkh@cosmic.voyage> writes:

    Anyone know where to get finger for linux? sources would be best.

    Try something like ...

    $ echo yeti | nc tilde.institute finger
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    Do you GNUS too? -- yeti@tickle-me--but-please-only-over-nntp--club
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.meta on Fri Jul 15 23:36:57 2022
    lkh@cosmic.voyage wrote:
    so after I've set up my .plan and .project on the pubnixes I use, I
    tried to look up myself from my arch linux laptop. But surprise, there's
    no finger program on arch ... bummer!

    Anyone know where to get finger for linux? sources would be best.

    Google fu didn't yield much ...

    Checking the details of packages for other distros often works
    better than general searches for tools like these (except for
    things like rexec where they're in the sources but nobody puts
    them into packages).

    For Debian:

    bsd-finger http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bsd-finger/bsd-finger_0.17-15.2.debian.tar.bz2
    http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bsd-finger/bsd-finger_0.17.orig.tar.bz2
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    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From Cookie Monster@cookie@mons.ter to tilde.meta on Sat Jul 16 07:20:37 2022
    On 7/15/22 12:48, lkh@cosmic.voyage wrote:
    Hi,

    so after I've set up my .plan and .project on the pubnixes I use, I
    tried to look up myself from my arch linux laptop. But surprise, there's
    no finger program on arch ... bummer!

    Anyone know where to get finger for linux? sources would be best.

    Google fu didn't yield much ...

    Cheers,

    lkh

    You can pull the sources down from Debian repos with apt package
    manager. I think you can install apt on Arch, although you can't use it
    for Arch package management you can use the --download-only and sources switches to download the source archives.

    Apt gives this link for the finger homepage: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/

    --

    Cookie Monster



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  • From lkh@lkh@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sun Jul 17 09:01:10 2022
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    <lkh@cosmic.voyage> writes:

    Anyone know where to get finger for linux? sources would be best.

    Try something like ...

    $ echo yeti | nc tilde.institute finger


    TIL about netcat! Hey thanks!

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  • From lkh@lkh@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sun Jul 17 09:07:34 2022
    Cookie Monster <cookie@mons.ter> wrote:
    You can pull the sources down from Debian repos with apt package
    manager. I think you can install apt on Arch, although you can't use it
    for Arch package management you can use the --download-only and sources switches to download the source archives.

    Apt gives this link for the finger homepage: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/


    and there it is: bsd-finger-0.17.tar.gz ...

    thanks!

    lkh
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