Fingers

Many software developers and prominent members of the Quake community make their ideas and goals known publicly by writing these into a file that becomes associated with their e-mail address on their home server. This file, known as a .plan file, can be accessed by the UNIX "finger" command. Many news sites have these commands within a hyperlink, allowing you to view a person's .plan with a single click. The news contained in such files is often just humor, but some, like John Carmack, use this as a primary way of dissemination information.

Spotlight

Quake Finger

Quake Finger is the definitive source of .plan file information. Dweomer has created a site that presents the myriad of daily .plan updates in an intelligent and orderly fashion. Presently, the site has the following features:

• .plan Summary displays automatically generated summaries of .plan updates

• .plan Archive lets you browse old .plan files - great for reminiscing or just checking up on what you might have missed

• .plan Search allows you to do keyword searching on all .plans in the archive

• Entire site is constantly updated and dynamically created using server-side scripting

Below is a list of some of the many "fingers" available on the Quake Finger:

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