Notes on Jeff Patterson's Programs ---------------------------------- Jeff Patterson is the author of the excellent DOS IRC client, jpIRC. These are some more of his programs. TN102.EXE is a telnet client. NFINGER.EXE is a finger client. NSLOOKUP.EXE is Nslookup (used to look up domain name information). There is no documentation with any of these. TN102.EXE does not work on my system, but the other two do. Like jpIRC, these are Trumpet TCP apps, so you need to set up Trumpet TCP first; see tcp201.txt on my site. You need to set some environment variables and load NTCPDRV.EXE. The programs themselves require no configuration. The syntax for NSLOOKUP.EXE is simple: nslookup tvdog.buckeyeweb.com or: nslookup 204.117.9.33 NSLOOKUP.EXE will display some technical information about nameservers, then towards the bottom of the screen you'll see the IP address of the requested site (if you entered the domain name) or the domain name (if you entered the IP address). The syntax for NFINGER.EXE is equally simple: nfinger tvdog@tvdog.buckeyeweb.com (If I'm online with Linux, that will finger me.) This will tell who is online with a particular host: nfinger @tvdog.buckeyeweb.com NFINGER.EXE will hang if the remote host doesn't support finger; use - to exit. One limitation these two programs have is that they write directly to the screen rather than to standard output, so MORE won't work with them. Perhaps a scrollback TSR such as Scrollit can be used to handle output longer than a single screen.