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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 16:11:44 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/2003: Finger does not work with many systems
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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