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The history of the .plan file goes back to way before ID or Carmack. It's been part of unix for a long time. Back when things were simpler, you could finger a u
by Tharkun 8y ago
The history of the .plan file goes back to way before ID or Carmack. It's been part of unix for a long time. Back when things were simpler, you could finger a user and read their .plan to see what they were up to.
- dotancohen 8y ago> you could finger a user Usually `finger` was not used alone. Associated tools included grep, fsck, mount and if all went well `yes`. I usually prefer to finish the task with `sleep` as well.
- pantulis 8y ago... and other useful info such as office location, phone number, etc. Those were the days before corporate directories.
- WorldMaker 8y agoFor a brief bit I had a simple python script dump tweets into a .plan file mostly just to amuse myself by connecting new social media to old. Hmm, I wonder if I ask my Mastodon host nicely if they'd open up finger protocol support, lol. (ETA: Reminds one of the old adage about blind men touching the elephant.)
- Tharkun 8y agoI was shocked to discover that finger is no longer installed by default on most linux distros.