Gibbon Finger

Gibbon Finger is a graphical (PM) finger program with many features, including quick lists, scrollable windows that show the results, and the ability to copy the output to the clipboard, a file, or a printer. The results of the finger request are displayed in a separate window. You can have multiple results showing, either in separate windows, or one after the other in a single window. The fonts and colours for the results windows can be configured using drag-n-drop from the OS/2 system Font and Colour palettes.

The finger program can also PING the site you are trying, so you can determine if the site is online. There is also a very nice DNS lookup included, so if all else fails, you can see if the site even exists.

The Gibbon Finger Daemon is a combination of two programs. The setup program is a graphical (PM) program that you can use to fully customize the response to a query. You can include custom messages before and after the actual response, and you can include plan and project files. The daemon itself is a text-mode application. It receives incoming queries, and formats the response based on your preferences as you have set them up using the setup program. It can be started manually and be constantly running, or you can have it start from INETD.