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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:38:08 -0700 (MST)
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> It seems that Andrew Foster said:
> > And yet the old finger works fine, as does fingering from most other hosts
> > I've tried.
> 
> Finger has been changed (or fixed :-)) to use T/TCP recently...

"Fixed" is subjective.  It saves one response packet and loses
interoperability.  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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