NAME
f2html, r, pull – treat finger(1) like a social network

SYNOPSIS
fiingers/r [ –ap ]
fiingers/pull

DESCRIPTION
r reads your set of retrieived finger(1) responses and prints any newer than the last time you ran the command, oldest first, in a friendly format. The options are:
–a    Ignore "last viewed"; display the latest update for each target and do not set the last viewed time.
f2htmlis like r except the output is formatted as HTML. The options are the same as for r. Normal usage is to invoke it via cron with –a and redirect the output to a file accessible on the web.
–p    Pull updates for any feeds you're subscribed to before displaying statuses.
fingers/pull will fetch the finger response for any target you're subscribed to and store them locally. Each target is checked against the most recently seen response. If it differs, it is stored with the current timestamp; otherwise, it is discarded.

FILES
$home/lib/fingers

SOURCE
http://txtpunk.com/fingers/

SEE ALSO
finger(1)
http://txtpunk.com/finger/

BUGS
Some servers, like happynetbox.com, automatically add content, which can change on each pull, which defeats our attempt to check for changes. pull should implement some sort of filtering, perhaps on a domain basis.
pull doesn't do adequate error checking.
r and f2html don't currently sort outputs like they's supposed to.
f2html should work from a template and/or provide a way to specify a stylesheet.