On 9/17/23 19:40, Mark Phillips wrote:
On the HamGate BBS project we use a "finger"
command to collect a MetoGram?from a university in Norway. you
might be able to fashion?this for your own purposes?
finger ^
philadelphia@...?
? ?The city you are interested in is preceded?by the hat
(shift 6) symbol.
"finger
help@..." indicates that the caret symbol prior to the
municipal name returns imperial units.
Many thanks for reminding me of the finger command. I used to use it
extensively 1989-1991 to check the online status of a graduate
astronomy friend at UNMLC, and then "talk" for realtime textual
communications. There were several days when he wasn't online, and
then I was informed that he didn't survive a private AC crash in TX.
Maybe that's why I put the finger command out of mind, but again,
thank you for reminding me of this very useful UNIX/Linux tool.
