Package-Name: /pub/comp/gnu/finger/isci-finger-1.0.23.tar.Z Title: finger Author: "Brian Fox" "Andreas Stolcke" Maintained-at: ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:/pub/stolcke Maintained-by: "Andreas Stolcke" Version: 1.0.23 Platforms: Sun3 SunOS 3.5 Sun3 SunOS 4.1.1 Sun4 SunOS 4.1.1, 4.1.3, 5.3 (aka Solaris 2.3) DECstations Ultrix 4.0, 4.2, 4.3 DEC Alpha OSF/1 V1.3 NeXT Release 1.0, 2.1 HP 9000/700/HP-UX 8.05, 8.07, 9.01 SGI IRIX System V Release 3.3.2, 4.0.1, 4.0.5F, 4.0.5H BSDI BSD/386 1.1 Keywords: finger, hierarchical polling, faces, X11 Copying-Policy: GNU Description: icsi-finger This is a vast improvement of the original GNU-finger from Brian Fox. His finger-version gives the known funtionality of berkeley finger plus + client/server structured information gathering + distribute bitmaps of fingered user + hold the user and host info on a central place and direct finger request there, to get all information about a user, without fingering him on seperate machines. Andreas Stolcke fixed a lot of bugs, added new features and is currently maintining his version with + enhanced debugging features + logging via syslog + possiblility to create hierarchical polling structures + debug-info while polling + uses lastlog on first poll + man-pages to all utils, formats etc.