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Subj:	New version of VMS FINGER for VMS 5.x available

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From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@AAMRL.AF.MIL:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: New version of VMS FINGER for VMS 5.x available
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A new version of FINGER for VMS 5.x ONLY is now available.  It will 
has a many new features.  It will be on the Spring 1989 DECUS SIG Tapes 
has part of the SPC (Saint Peter's College) submission.  This is a definitive 
FINGER for VMS 5 and has fixed many problems in the older release.

Attached is the AAAREADME describing the changes and new features.

You can get the new version by doing send the following as a message to
"MAILSERV%FALCON@AAMRL.AF.MIL":

	SEND FINGER.1_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.2_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.3_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.4_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.5_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.6_OF_7
	SEND FINGER.7_OF_7

Nothing else should be in the mail message.

The BECOME program for VMS 5.X is also availble through this mailserv and can 
be obtained by sending a message containing:

	SEND BECOME.1_of_1


Ted Nieland
TNIELAND@AAMRL.AF.MIL


FINGER'S AAAREADME.TXT

Finger V51_1_17

VMS V5 required. The supplied images were linked under V5.1-1 and will need
to be re-linked if you are running an earlier V5 release. The object  files
are supplied to do this for those without the VAX Fortran compiler.

Major changes:

o    None

Minor changes:

o    Code to report the originating node and username for RTAnnn: terminals
     has been added. This replaces the old TT_UCB code with a method  which
     will  be far more robust across future VMS versions. [Thanks to  Frank
     Nagy of Fermilab]

o    All known problems with array subscripting have been fixed. The  image
     now  compiles  and runs properly when compiled /CHECK.  In  fact,  the
     supplied objects are compiled that way.

o    A  long-standing problem with /SORT used in conjunction with jnet  has
     been corrected. In short, duplicate or garbled output would be emitted
     for  all but the first jnet finger command, and the first jnet  finger
     command would not return any user information.

o    Jnet  code  and installation procedures have been  modified  for  jnet
     V3.3.

o    Added display of forwarding address if mail is being forwarded, unless
     forwarding is to PMDF's DELIVER% protocol.

o    Corrected problem where HELP would go to useless places (for jnet, the
     bit  bucket; for DECnet, NETSERVER.LOG) instead of being delivered  to
     the requester's terminal.

o    Corrected problem with not finding our help library.

o    Corrected problem with mail messages not displaying if the user  being
     fingered did not explicitly declare a mail directory.

o    Corrected problem with /SORT=LOGIN_TIME.

o    Display an error message if sorting on an unknown field.

o    Added /SORT=CPU_TIME subqualifier.

o    Cleaned up error message, all are now in standard VMS format.

o    Disconnected  virtual terminals are now displayed as VTAnnnn:  instead
     of _VTAnnnn: so as to fit in the field width.

o    Terminal types are now inquired from VMS if the terminal is not in the
     Finger Common Block (FCB) or if the FCB contains the string  "Unknown"
     for the terminal type.

o    The CPU type is now reported a little differently.

o    A problem with the host name was fixed -  if the FCB contained a blank
     or null hostname, the DECnet node was not being used instead.

o    Unread mail information  is now shown to the sender,  even if across a
     DECnet or Jnet link.  An option for treating DECnet as a common envir-
     onment was also added.

o    Idle times are back! Thanks to Ted Nieland, Joe Meadows, and Ken Alde-
     man for their work on this.

o    Bypass logic over DECnet has been cleand up.

o    FINGMAINT  will now display an error message if an attempt is made  to
     add an item which will not fit in the FCB.

o    Added  SHOW/STATISTICS to FINGMAINT to show the number of  items  used
     and  left, as well as percentage of utilization, for each of the  item
     types.


Terry Kennedy                                terry@spcvxa.bitnet
Operations Manager, Academic Computing       (201) 435-0252
Saint Peter's College
2641 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07306

