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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:49:40 -0700 (MST)
From: Joel Maslak <j@pobox.com>
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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 
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> > This probably has more to do with the Linux system.  Odds are that
> > it's running GNU finger which is what I would call "lame by default".
> > Try passing -l...
> 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.

The -T fixed the problem (-l did not).

But, I agree.  Should this be the default?

Joel Maslak

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