              FINGER.TTP - STinG Finger Client v1.10
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      		     (c)1998 Gary A. Priest
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FINGER.TTP is a freeware finger client for the Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon
and compatibles, when running the TCP/IP stack, STinG.

It can be used to send Finger requests to a machine running a Finger 
daemon. It is a simple TOS based Finger client, which can either be 
run on it's own from a GEM desktop or from within a CLI or TOS based 
shell.

It was written in assembler and is based on the Finger protocol 
defined in RFC1288.

USING FINGER.TTP
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Run FINGER.TTP and pass it the finger query you wish to process. eg.
to see the current status messages of Demon Internet, pass FINGER.TTP 
the command line:
	status@gate.demon.co.uk
This will result in FINGER.TTP connecting to machine gate.demon.co.uk, 
and displaying the results that it sends back.


SPECIAL POINTS OF NOTE
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Passing a command of -h will display the credits and version number of 
FINGER.TTP.

If no host is specified then local is assumed. eg. 
	finger gary
will be treated as finger gary@127.0.0.1 and thus will try to connect 
to the machine it is running on, which is hopefully running AFINGERD.

Host forwarding finger queries are fully supported as per RFC1288.
ie. finger foo@host1@host2 will pass foo@host1 as a query onto host2.


FREEWARE
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FINGER.TTP is FREEWARE! I make no charge for using it.

If you use and like it, then please drop me an email and tell me 
so. Without encouragement it may not develop. So, even if it's 
just a one liner, please make the effort.


DISCLAIMER
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FINGER.TTP is used at your own risk. I will not be held responsible for 
any damage caused either directly or indirectly from it's use, or the 
loss of any electronic data.


KNOWN PROBLEMS/LIMITATIONS
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.I have not tested it with STiK, and offer no guarantees that it will
 work. It definately works with STinG.
 
.Seems to randomly crash when running under VT52 in MagiC. I have 
 tried to prevent this by outputting characters one at a time using 
 Cconout when running under MagiC. When not running under MagiC it 
 uses Cconws to output a whole string, which should be faster.


NEW VERSIONS
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The latest version of FINGER.TTP can be found packaged with AFINGERD, 
on my website:

http://www.the-gap.demon.co.uk/

Finger versions@the-gap.demon.co.uk to get a list of current version 
numbers of all my programs.
THIS WILL ONLY WORK WHEN I AM ACTUALLY ONLINE TO THE INTERNET.
   
Gary Priest 03/05/98
gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk


VERSION CHANGES/HISTORY
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v1.10 07/05/98
.Now packaged separately from AFINGERD

.Slightly faster retrieval of data.

.Tried to prevent it randomly crashing under VT52 in MagiC by using 
 Cconout instead of Cconws when running under MagiC.

v1.00 03/05/98
.Initial Release - Packaged with AFINGERD
