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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:16:07 -0800
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:24:12 -0800 
 "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote:

 > Actually, FreeBSD finger is a TTCP app and is probably showing that, at least
 > the version of Linux running on those machines, does not have an RFC
 > compliant
 > TCP stack.  You can disable the use of TTCP with the -T finger option.

Eww.  Rather backwards, isn't it?  Shouldn't the FreeBSD finger be
compatible by default?  Seems like the T/TCP code should be _enabled_
using -T...

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