Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!hutch@sri-spam From: "Reginald R. Hutcherson"Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: finger @machine ? Message-ID: <7243@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 20:39:50 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7243 Posted: Fri Jan 11 20:39:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 00:44:31 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 20 fellow wizards, i've used the finger program on the Tops-20 o.s and like the fact that i could get a listing of who is on a given machine by doing the following: finger @machine-name is there such a program on unix, or is this something unique to the Tops-20 environment; moreover could anyone point me in the right direction so as to design the algorithum for doing this on unix, as i'm a novice with respect to the communication software and what would be needed(i.e, opening sockets, tcp/ip protocals, etc..) to establish a connection to another machine and asking for the appropriate information, but i'm interested in learning about this type of thing. thanks in advance, -- hutch --------