Finger V51_1_22
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 Adel-
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.
New for V51.1.20:
o A bug with displaying the mail forwarding information has been fixed.
Previously forwarding would not display in some cases.
o The NONODE message has been corrected. A previous attempt at a fix had
the side effect of not signalling the error if Finger was not local.
o Add display of jnet "receive" file count.
o The interpretation of "default" qualifiers has been corrected. Previ-
ously if nothing was specified or defaulted in the CLD, Finger would
assume a set of qualifiers. Now if nothing is specified or defaulted
in the CLD, only interactive jobs will be displayed.
o Two new qualifiers (DISSUBJREP and DISMAILREP) have been added to the
CLD to allow sites to customize the amount of Mail information Finger
displays without having to re-compile. See the FINGER_CUSTOM.TXT file
for more information.
o The process type (Bat, Net, Sub) is now displayed in the terminal name
field for non-interactive processes.
o Terminal servers may now be Fingered if you have TSM on your system or
any other system on your network also running this version of Finger.
Finger spawns TSM in a subprocess and displays the output. This change
requires Finger to have OPER privilege. The new START_FINGER files
have been changed to reflect this.
o Fingmaint now emits the proper error message if a user executes a com-
mand such as ADD/UAF instead of ADD/USER/UAF.
o Personal names are now stored as the full 31 characters. This allows
people with long names (bosses, typically) to have their name display
properly when Fingered. The name length when /PERSONAL is given re-
mains at 25, and can be changed by editing the source.
*** NOTE: THIS CHANGE REQUIRES THE FINGER COMMON BLOCK (FCB) TO BE RE-
*** BUILT AND RE-LOADED WITH THE NEW FINGMAINT !!!
New for V51.1.21:
o A typo in the non-default site-specific section of decnet_finger would
prevent compilation if selected. This has been fixed.
o Output would be truncated if the user being fingered was running an
image which had an extremely long file specification (greater than 64
characters). This has been corrected.
o If the site-specific option to 'pretty' personal names was selected,
an access violation would occur. This has been corrected.
o A problem when the site-specific "commonly administered DECnet" option
was selected has been corrected. Previously, selecting this option did
not properly display mail sender information. (It also wouldn't com-
pile properly).
o Finger was erroneously propagating the /IAM qualifier onto non-DECnet
networks under the following circumstance: If VMS Finger received a
DECnet request for a non-DECnet host, it would propagate the entire
command line without inspection. In this situation, the /IAM qualifier
should have been removed. It is now properly removed in this case.
o Minor cosmetic changes have been made to the header.
New for V51.1.22:
o The ADD/USER/UAF command in Fingmaint is now *much* faster. Thanks to
Craig Watkins of PSUECL for this fix.
o A spurious error message was generated if you fingered a user who was
in the process of logging in on an RTA device. This has been correct-
ed. Thanks to Craig Watkins (PSUECL) and Frank Nagy (FNAL) for this
fix.
o Some data structures were erroneously left in the Finger common block
which pertained to the obsolete TT_UCB code. They have been removed in
this release. Thanks to Frank Nagy of FNAL for this fix.
o If the port name (SET PORT NAME) of a DECserver port is "DIALUP.some-
thing" it will now be reported as a location of "Dialup something" in-
stead of "SERVER DIALUP.so", which was the previous action.
o Users may now individually prevent others from seeing their count and
subjects of unread mail. This is accomplished by having a Mail folder
named "F_PRIVACY". If Finger detects this folder, it will print the
message "Mail: Permission refused by owner" instead of the usual in-
formation.
Editorial comment: My dead body must be around here somewhere, as I
have been known to say that this feature would be implemented obver my
dead body. However, as the alternative to this is the few militant
users forcing a system-wide default of /DISREPMAIL, this is probably a
smaller lossage. I seriously thought about checking for the F_PRIVACY
folder before fingering another user, and refusing to print any mail
information if the person doing the finger had F_PRIVACY set, but I
decided it was unfair to penalize the vast majority. Feel free, how-
ever, to make snide comments to anyone you obsserve using Finger if
you know s/he has F_PRIVACY set.
Terry Kennedy terry@spcvxa.bitnet
Operations Manager, Academic Computing (201) 435-0252
Saint Peter's College
2641 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07306