Top Document: Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ Previous Document: ... ... 2.1.1 Unix Finger Command Next Document: ... ... 2.1.3 Fingering Yourself See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge In addition to using the finger or f command you can finger people through a Web browser. The following is a form that Doug Stevenson <doug+@osu.edu> created: http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/finger.pl You can finger a specific user with a syntax like this: //www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/finger.pl?doug%2B@osu.edu">http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/finger.pl?doug%2B@osu.edu With Doug's finger gateway, if the .plan contains some HTML, it will be presented as hypertext, e.g: Go to <A HREF="http://www.jazzie.com/ii/">Infinite Ink's Home Page</A>. Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu> has a Web finger gateway that you can find out about at: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/finger/gateway To use it you use this syntax: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/finger/fully.qualified.domain.name/userid/w For example, to finger Marc, type: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/finger/cs.indiana.edu/mvanheyn/w With Marc's finger gateway, if an URL in a .plan uses the <URL:...> syntax, described in 3.1 below, it will be a link, e.g.: <URL://www.jazzie.com/ii/> You can also use this URL: gopher://fully.qualified.domain.name:79/0userid ^ Note: 0 precedes the userid For example you can finger my Internet service provider with this URL: gopher://halcyon.com:79/0info User Contributions:Top Document: Signature, Finger, & Customized Headers FAQ Previous Document: ... ... 2.1.1 Unix Finger Command Next Document: ... ... 2.1.3 Fingering Yourself Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: FAQ Editor <faq-editor@ii.com>
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