Re: [MacPerl] Looking for Fingers and Whois modules

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 23.30 -0500 1999.02.10, Iain Chalmers wrote:
>just installed it using chris's port of CPAN
>(it took all of 30 seconds or so)
>
>the first example in the pod works just fine

Which, Finger or Whois?  Whois 0.23 partially works, but not completely.

I just tested Net::Finger.  Seems to work except that the ouput does not do
newline translation, and it probably should.  Once you get the data from
finger, just do:

   $finger_data =~ s/\015?\012/\n/g;

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