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From: Kai Vorma <vode@snakemail.hut.fi>
To: -Vince- <vince@apollo.COSC.GOV>
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Subject: Re: compiling gnu finger
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vince@apollo.cosc.gov writes:

 > 	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.  

I think that gnu finger has been dead for years. Try icsi-finger
(which is based on gnu finger) instead - you can find it from

  ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:/pub/ai/stolcke/software/

..vode