Document the bogus standard requirement of delaying the close.

Also include a reference to the FINGER RFC.
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Garrett Wollman 1997-08-01 20:26:47 +00:00
parent a32cbefa87
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@ -30,8 +30,9 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)finger.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/5/94
.\" $Id$
.\"
.Dd May 5, 1994
.Dd August 1, 1997
.Dt FINGER 1
.Os BSD 4
.Sh NAME
@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is
denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office
phone number, or the remote host. If
.Fl h
is given, the remote host is printed (the default.) If
is given, the remote host is printed (the default). If
.Fl o
is given, the office location and office phone number is printed
instead.
@ -202,8 +203,19 @@ last login data base
.Xr w 1 ,
.Xr who 1 ,
.Xr ttcp 4 .
.Rs
.%A D. Zimmerman
.%T The Finger User Information Protocol
.%R RFC 1288
.%D December, 1991
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm finger
command appeared in
.Bx 3.0 .
.Sh BUGS
The current FINGER protocol RFC requires that the client keep the connection
fully open until the server closes. This prevents the use of the optimal
three-packet T/TCP exchange. (Servers which depend on this requirement are
bogus but have nonetheless been observed in the Internet at large.)