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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:11:44 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems
Message-ID:  <328A5E86.31DFF4F5@whistle.com>
References:  <199611132300.PAA23320@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 

>   >     /usr/bin/finger does not seem to like Linux.  ;)
>   >     When a linux site is fingered (not sure which versions, but
>   >     Red Hat 3.0 and Slackware 3.0, for sure), a blank response
>   >     is shown:
>
Turn off the TCP extensions..
finger tries by default to use them but I believe that some versions of
Linux can't cope with them..

(or at least when I last looked)

julian



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