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On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As David May wrote:
> > 
> > Question: are there any known problems with GNU finger. Has anybody installed
> > it successfully? Or is it just my installation attempt thatwas wrong?
> 
> I have done it recently, though i haven't been able to make a port,
> mainly since a somewhat sophisticated configuration script is
> required.  If somebody wants to jump in, i can pass the diffs for it,
> including diffs to properly use the procfs (our procfs largely differs
> from SysV, which GNUfinger's idea of procfs was apparently based
> upon).

	I actually have the port available if anyone wants it.

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