Finger Wizard ActiveX v3
Finger Wizard makes it easy to utilize the Finger service of networked servers.
You can access all the information that the servers provide with easy to use
methods.
The Finger service runs on many types of servers. The main use is to provide
data about the users of the particular system. Some return who is online at the
moment, some return information about the mail boxes hosted on that server, and
even others return scientific data.
The Finger Protocol used is used for a few different purposes. The primary is to
interrogate a server about its users. By querying with the user name, or even
possibly the actual name of a user you can find out if they are online on the
server, if they mail, their real name , their mail box name, their personal
directory and more. It all depends on the administrator of the finger server
for how much information you will actually get. There are also different
implementations of the use for instance an institute offers earthquake
information by querying it with coordinates and other information.
This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX
scriptable languages such as VBScript.
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