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{{Entry
|Name=Finger
|Short description=Lets Unix users exchange information
|Full description=A modern computing facility consists of one user per host, and many hosts per site. To find out about logged on users at another site you must query each host to find out about an individual user. With GNU Finger, a single host is designated the finger "server" host and collects information about who is logged on to other hosts at that site. A user then needs to query only the server host, instead of each host at that site. GNU Finger follows the finger "protocol" (rules for communication) in responding to simple requests, since this protocol is siple. But it can also implement another protocol that lets two finger programs exchange information in a predetermined way; this allows faster and wider bandwidth communication.
|User level=none
|Status=Vanished
|Component programs=
|Homepage URL=http://www.gnu.org/software/finger/finger.html
|VCS checkout command=
|Computer languages=C
|Documentation note=User online manual available at http://www.gnu.org/software/finger/manual/
|Paid support=
|IRC help=
|IRC general=
|IRC development=
|Related projects=Fingerd
|Keywords=Internet,finger,Unix
|Is GNU=y
|Last review by=Janet Casey
|Last review date=2008-02-21
|Submitted by=Database conversion
|Submitted date=2011-04-01
|Version identifier=1.37
|Version date=1992-10-28
|Version status=stable
|Version download=http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/finger/finger-1.37.tar.gz
|License verified date=2001-01-31
|Version comment=1.37 stable released 1992-10-28
}}
{{Person
|Role=Maintainer
|Real name=Chris Cooper
|Email=cjc@gnu.org
|Resource URL=
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Bug Tracking
|Resource kind=E-mail
|Resource URL=mailto:bug-finger@gnu.org
}}
{{Resource
|Resource audience=Developer,Support
|Resource kind=E-mail
|Resource URL=mailto:cjc@gnu.org
}}
{{Software category
|Interface=command-line
|Internet-application=security
|Use=internet-application,security
}}
{{Project license
|License=GPLv2orlater
|License verified by=Janet Casey
|License verified date=2001-01-31
}}

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