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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
Date: 22 Jun 1995 12:32:22 +0200
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Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>... But
>then again, a finger server would probably be better.
Have a look at GNU finger, Brian. They've got it at our local
university, and i've always found its output rather nice. It's not
overflooding you (*unlike* rwho), and it's even showing you the basic
command somebody's running, so you can make sure you won't break into
his `vi' session with your intented `talk' request.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)