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Re: finger, login, etc.

David L Watson wrote:

> 	I was wondering if anybody had ported a version of finger that is net
> aware to MiNT.  The version I have came with MintOS (I think) and
> doesn't parse the @ symbol.

finger is available on atari.archive and ftp.uni-muenster.de in
.../atari/Mint/Network.

1994/06/01        45351  /pub/atari/Mint/Network/finger.tgz 
1994/06/01        23631  /pub/atari/Mint/Network/fingerd.tgz 

> 	Secondly, I've noticed that login doesn't want more than 8 characters
> in a passwd.  I made a longer passwd, but when I log in, the login
> program drops me into my shell after I type in the first 8 characters. 

Hmm, this is a known bug and I *think* it is fixed in 1.4.1.

> P.S. are we going to see rdate up on the ftp sites any time soon? :)

I've put it on a.a:/atari/New/rdate-00.tgz right now. Please tell me
if it works for you.

Bye,
Knarf
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