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- Finger description: Unix manual page for finger: unix man finger
- Finger Protocol: The Finger User Information Protocol, by D. Zimmerman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1288.txt)
- Finger via email: : mail dlangley@netcom.com Subject: #finger USER@HOST.DOMAIN"
- Finger via telnet: access finger via telnet HOST=host on which USER is located, then type USER (telnet://rpi.edu:79)
- FingerInfo: a script to get information via finger, by Scott Yanoff (ftp://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/fingerinfo)
Definition: Finger retrieves information about a user registered on a host computer.
Finger via gopher: gopher to HOST, port 79, path 0USER-ID (gopher://HOST:79/0USERID)