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diff --git a/data/help/finger b/data/help/finger new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e06ec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/help/finger @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ + +finger + +Usage: finger [user] + + Displays information about the given user. If no user is given, then +your information is displayed. Here is a sample display: + +|----------------------------------------------------------------------| + Statistics for Aquinas On for: 55 Idle: 0 + (examining game 9: Plato vs. Aristotle) + + rating RD win loss draw total best + Blitz 1910 75.3 28 10 2 40 1936 (01-Jun-95) + Standard 1838 92.3 13 6 1 20 1838 (03-Jun-95) + Lightning ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0 + Wild 1876 94.3 15 10 0 25 1903 (05-Jun-95) + + Timeseal: ON + + 1: <text> + 2: <text> +|----------------------------------------------------------------------| + + The user's ratings for each type of chess are displayed, along with the +Glicko RD (or index of ratings variability), the total results from games +played, and the best or highest rating for each type. You can also tell (1) +whether the user is (1) currently logged on and, if so, for how long and +whether his/she is idle, (2) playing, observing or examining a game and, if +so, which game it is, and (3) currently running a version of timeseal or not. +Beneath the ratings are note lines (a user's "plan" or "notes") the user can +add using the set command. + + +SPECIAL NOTES: + +(a) Your e-mail address is automatically displayed to you beneath your ratings +table; it is NOT displayed to other users -- unless of course you include your +address as part of your finger notes. + +(b) Best ratings and dates are only given *after* you have played 20 games of +a given type. + +(c) If a user has not played rated games of a given type, the rating will be +indicated as ---- and the RD will be 350.0. + +(d) If a user is not logged on, the display will indicate when he/she last +disconnected and the timeseal section will not appear. + +See Also: busy examine glicko notes observe ratings set timeseal +variables + +[Last modified: December 17, 1995 -- Friar] + |