yes, the gopher hack is functionally equivalent to plain
finger. (The end of line char(s) might be different but there's
no missing functionality.)
I shouldn't bring this up because I think it's a lousy idea but
you could always have a generic tcp url that encoded all the
interactions required for an arbitrary protocol. It'd probably get
kinda long tho...
(bty, that pizza thing don't work for me)
-reed
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