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| ▲ | spauldo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Finger is a protocol. It's older than IP. You can read about it in RFC 742. |
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| ▲ | assimpleaspossi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Unix, Linux and BSD have finger built in. |
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| ▲ | drivers99 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Just found out macOS has it too. Created a .plan file and used finger on my user name and it showed the plan. There's no fingerd or anything listening on the port though, but it worked locally. Neat. |
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| ▲ | Bender 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's just a shell function so in this case if one had a terminal app that has a shell one could add the function. No idea how feasible that is on a phone. |
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| ▲ | cowlevel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | A terminal emulator is more heavy than a dedicated app is | | |
| ▲ | Bender 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I will leave writing an app to someone else. I've watched others go through all the challenges of getting into app stores and it's just not for me. | | |
| ▲ | cowlevel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Fortunately some phones allow you to install apps, not just get them through the overpriced shit store. |
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| ▲ | anthk 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If it has a shell and telnet/nc it has finger: echo user | nc example.com 79 Lynx works too over gopher: lynx gopher://graph.no:79/0/london |
