Net Topics: Fingers & Socks

by Joseph Heenan & Stewart Brodie


The files contained in this directory accompany the Net Topics article in this issue.

Finger, by Joseph Heenan, is an Internet Finger utility, written in C, which can be used when on-line to discover information about a user at a specified address. Full source code is provided. A simpler version, written in Basic, is also included.

Stewart Brodie's socket utilities are useful for programmers who are writing Internet utilities. OpenSocks displays all open Internet sockets, whilst CloseSock allows specified sockets to be closed individually.


Finger utilities are copyright  RISC User magazine 1998
Socket utilities are freeware
