SYSTEM@CUCEVX.CIVIL.COLUMBIA.EDU (10/31/87)
Info-Vaxers, Has anyone modified Rich Garland's FINGER program (for VMS systems) to use EXCELAN's tcp/ip programming interface? Specifically, the FINGER program includes a function, Tcp_Finger, that handles outgoing finger requests to a tcp/ip network using Wollogong's EUNICE TCP/IP software. I would like a version of this function written with EXCELAN's EXOS programming interface. Before starting to write such a routine, I'd like to see if anyone else has already done this. Additionally, if you've written an incoming daemon for VMS FINGER, that would be interesting too! Thanks. Holt Farley system@cucevx.civil.columbia.edu
got@psueclb.BITNET (11/02/87)
> Has anyone modified Rich Garland's FINGER program (for VMS systems) to >use EXCELAN's tcp/ip programming interface? > > Specifically, the FINGER program includes a function, Tcp_Finger,... I wrote a little program that uses Excelans programming interface...I call it RFINGER. It was some problems, like stupid DCL upcasing arguments to the program. Note that this is a seperate program and is not part of the regular finger command...I did this for two reasons...one, I didn't want to figure out how finger works and change the sources, and two, It would take a very long time for finger to search its various databases to find the node you want assuming I did include it in finger. RFINGER goes directly to the network, and for our local nodes is pretty fast compaired to regular finger. > > Additionally, if you've written an incoming daemon for VMS FINGER, >that would be interesting too! I also wrote an incomming daemon that calls Rich Garlands finger program (I have no idea whether it would work with the new version of finger). Try finger @psuecl (128.118.5.4) and hopefully you'll see it work! If you want copies of this stuff let me know, and I'll mail it to you, or should I post it to this news group or maybe some other one? Does anyone have a 'shar' program for VMS.. I normally don't deal with VMS sources...
got@psueclb.BITNET (11/02/87)
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