Difference between revisions of "Finger"

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Finger is a network protocol used to provide information about users logged in on a host. It was first invented at the Stanford AI Lab, by Les Earnest.

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RFC 742: NAME/FINGER, the first ARPANET version from 1977.
RFC 1288: The Finger User Information Protocol, the latest TCP/IP version from 1991.

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−	'''Finger''' is a [[network]] [[protocol]] used to ~~list people~~ logged in on a [[host]]. It was first invented at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\|Stanford AI Lab]], by Les Earnest.	+	'''Finger''' is a [[network]] [[protocol]] used to provide information about [[user]]s logged in on a [[host]]. It was first invented at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory\|Stanford AI Lab]], by Les Earnest.

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