is this wise?

[Mark Buda]

Consider this (and ignore the lack of error checking):

/* finger.c */
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
FILE *f;
int c;
f = fopen("/dev/hosts/uunet.uu.net/tcp/79", "r+");
fprintf(f, "\r\n");
while ((c = getc(f)) != EOF) putchar(c);
fclose(f);
}

There. Isn't that much nicer than sockets?

Mark Buda
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