alt Hacker NewsAssuming you have this finger app installed. My Android store does not seem to have one, for example.
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Bender • yesterday at 9:43 PM
It's just a shell function so in this case if one had a terminal app that has a shell one could add the function. No idea how feasible that is on a phone.
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anthk • yesterday at 11:38 PM
If it has a shell and telnet/nc it has finger:
echo user | nc example.com 79
Lynx works too over gopher:
lynx gopher://graph.no:79/0/london
ziiinq • today at 12:41 AM
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Finger is a protocol. It's older than IP.
You can read about it in RFC 742.