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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GNU fingerd patch
Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:56:09 GMT
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hhui@stardot.com (Hui-Hui Hu) wrote:

> The patch is trivial, but I screw everything up, so caveats.. is GNU
> fingerd still being maintained? Here's a cdiff.

I think GNU finger ain't maintained officially anymore.  There's a
FreeBSD port for it however, maintained by sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp.
I'd like to ask you sending your patch either to him, or to David,
obrien@freebsd.org who has been committing that port.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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