Talk:Finger protocol

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[edit] Use as a profanity

Could someone add something about the user of "finger" in hacker slang as a profane reference to a sexual act? Similar to the use of fsck as a profanity. There are numerous quotes of people humorously promising to "finger and fsck".

Yes, here's a classic. "unzip && strip && touch && finger && mount && fsck && more && yes && umount && eject && sleep"

All are real commands that would be available on most recent *nix environments. --128.119.16.236 (talk) 16:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why .plan .project?

Anyone know the history behind .plan and .project? It would be interesting to put here as the .plan article redirects here. —Cliffb 06:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by the "history" behind these. The names begin with a dot because they are hidden dot-files. And they're called "plan" and "project" because they are supposed to contain your plans and/or projects, shown when you finger another user. Richard W.M. Jones 08:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect from .profile???

Why do I get redirected to this page when I am looking for .profile? CuriousOliver 22:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

"The program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As well as standard user information, finger displays the contents of the .project and .plan files in the user's home directory."

That's why. 88.217.45.254 12:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)