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From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling gnu finger
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 17:32:03 -0400
Organization: Yale University
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To: Paul Southworth <pauls@CIC.Net>
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On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Paul Southworth wrote:

-> In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.950910052700.15160r-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>,
-> >	Has anyone out there successfully compiled gnu finger 1.37 under 
-> >FreeBSD?  If anyone did, can you tell me what did you need to do to get 
-> >it to compile?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
> 
> GNU finger hasn't been updated in many moons.  If I were you, I'd go
> get the finger package from the UC Berkeley ICSI.

	Hmmm, will this package do finger logs like gnu finger would and
is this the finger package they use for ocf.Berkeley.EDU?

> ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:pub/ai/stolcke/software
> 
> I haven't built it on FreeBSD, but I have built it on many other platforms,
> and found it substantially more portable than GNU finger.

	Hmmm, is it alot more easy to install than GNU finger?  Thanks!


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