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nf (netfinger) is a netcat-based finger client. Features include support for the two major finger formats: user@domain.com and finger://domain.com/user.
Additional features include smart wrapping, HTML rendering, custom shortcuts, blocklists, auto CR/LF detection for server compatibility, protocol validation and error handling.
Author's Note: I'm really enjoying working with this new addition. I want to keep the script small but feature-rich. That is... add only (subjectively) useful features.
License: Blue Oak Model License Script: nf.txt
Compatibility: Linux, macOS and *BSD Status: updated 04 Dec 2025
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fm: The Multi-Server Finger Monitor. A simple little Finger server checker. Checks 3 core servers for recent user activity in one glance.
Author's Note: This simple little thing is probably my most used finger utility. So useful for checking in on the core servers running finger. See the screenshot below for a sample output.
License: Blue Oak License Script: fm.txt Screenshot: fm.png
Compatibility: Linux and macOS Status: updated 07 Dec 2025
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An in-house ASCII Template that I use to post on happynetbox.com. I have fun adding a little ASCII flair to the posts there. This htmlApp works similarly to cowsay and boxes (but uses only a single template). It takes data and inserts it into an ASCII Template.
Author's Note: It's in-house - so... maybe it could look nicer (I think it looks perfect:-) but it gets the job done for me. I plan on adding another template/htmlApp (for example: this one is next). Others may follow after that.
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nview is a Bash wrapper that captures finger client output and displays it in NFO Viewer. Features include a CLIENT_NAME variable (currently set to 'finger'), automated temporary file cleanup and a user-friendly help section.
Author's Note: I enjoy reading .plan files with terminal-based clients but I go through phases where I route everything through 'NFO Viewer'. Requires both NFO Viewer and this script. The "install" is simple. The rewards...? see the screenshots below.
License: Blue Oak Script: nview.txt Screenshots: Light, Dark
Compatibility: Linux and macOS Status: updated 10 Oct 2025
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sv (Spartan Viewer) is a Python CLI tool that fetches and renders single spartan:// protocol gemtext content or local .gmi files with ANSI-styled formatting, smart word-wrapping and redirect support for terminal viewing.
Author's Note: This standalone script requires the user to enter "sv {URL}" which may be an issue for some. The sbl file below (a companion bookmark/launcher to sv) fixes that. It links to some great sites on spartan in an easy to access way.
License: Blue Oak License Script: sv.txt Screens: Rendered & Help
Compatibility: Linux, macOS and Windows Status: updated 10 Oct 2025
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sbl (Spartan Bookmark Launcher) is a companion script to sv (Spartan Viewer) above. Running 'sbl' will launch URLs embedded in the script as:
"sv {URL} | less -R".
Author's Note: I use this to easily visit core spartan sites and great ascii art pages available using the spartan:// protocol. Requires sv (above) in order to retrieve and render the pages (it's just a single, portable script like this one). 12 pages are currently listed and it's easy to add your own (sbl --edit).
License: Blue Oak License Script: sbl.txt Screens: Main & Help
Compatibility: Linux/macOS. Windows: 95% Status: updated 06 Oct 2025
05 Nov 2025: Minor Windows fixes coming soon.
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bfinger is a bash-based Finger client (RFC 1288) using /dev/tcp for socket connections to query remote Finger servers, with full 8-bit character and ASCII art support.
Author's Note: Works great and it's just a few lines of Linux compatible code (when you remove the comments/help section).
License: Blue Oak License Script: bfinger.txt
Compatibility: Linux and macOS Status: updated 14 Nov 2025
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get-news is an in-house two-line script written to render and reformat the output of a finger account that uses github actions to auto-create a news site. This script is specific to the account: "finger bot@happynetbox.com" and requires netfinger to function.
Other ways to render and make the links clickable are via lynx, email (see fingerverse), nview and portal.mozz.us.
License: n/a
Screenshot: get-news.png script: get-news.txt
Compatibility: Linux only Status: updated 01 Dec 2025
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Binary Markdown Killer does two things: (1) it strips out all binary (word-processing) characters from a Markdown file, converting them to their 7-bit ASCII counterparts and (2) it converts Markdown into HTML 3.2.
The resulting HTML is available in its own Text Area window. Optionally, you can copy the rendered 7-bit ASCII text (sans HTML tags) from the [Preview] tab.
License: Blue Oak License
htmlApp: Binary Markdown Killer
Compatibility: All platforms Status: Last update 20 Sept 2025
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Simple HTML 3.2 Editor: A lightweight, browser-based HTML editor for classic HTML 3.2 tags. Highlight text and select a tag from the dropdown to wrap it - or insert tags and entities at the cursor position.
Author's Note: You can also paste modern html (complete page, snippets) to preview quickly.
License: Blue Oak License
htmlApp: Simple HTML 3.2 Editor
Compatibility: All platforms Status: minor update 20 Oct 2025
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A spoiler tag written using CSS and Javascript. The link leads to an HTML presentation page with embedded documentation, samples and the two pieces of CSS/JS that make this work.
Author's Note: I was looking around for a spoiler tag that ticked all the features I wanted and couldn't find one.
License: Blue Oak License
htmlApp: Spoiler-Tag.html
Compatibility: All platforms Status: updated 03 Oct 2025
04dec2025, issue: The spoiler tag block does not wrap. Will need to fix.
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quotes is a lightweight cross-platform Python-based random quote generator. Both the script (quotes) and a quotes file (quotes.txt) are needed.
License: Blue Oak License
File: Quotes File
Script: quotes.py.txt
Compatibility: Linux, macOS and Windows Status: new 08 Jul 2025
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Third-party/tweak: Text Calendar is a really nice looking (mostly ASCII) 12-month calendar. It was not created by me. It's from Anastasios Gogos. I made only two tweaks: (1) the weeks now run from Sun-Sat and (2) edited the footer.
License: MIT
Author: github
htmlApp (tweaked): Text Calendar
Compatibility: All platforms Status: new 05 Oct 2025
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codepage437 is a UTF-8 friendly version of the original code page for DOS. Includes conversion information (linux) to make it compatible with code pages used on other operating systems.
Author's Note: I didn't know where to put this and this page seemed like the current best fit. We had 256 characters and 640 kilobytes of memory in our entire universe. We didn't have much back in the day and yet... quite a lot was done with it.
License: CC0: No Rights Reserved Page: cpage437
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Tao Te Ching "is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of ancient Taoism. The Tao Te Ching is central to both philosophical and religious Taoism and has been highly influential on Chinese philosophy and religious practice in general." (wikipedia)
Author's Note: Below are two translations/interpretations by different authors. The first is by Ursula K Le Guin and is well received (and very approachable). The other, by Stephen Mitchell, is more controversial.
I actually started with Mitchell's version first - many years ago. Because of the language and delivery - it made general concepts approachable and put the "grand scheme of things" into perspective in an eye-opening and lucid way. He's here because he got me started and I think I owe others the same kind of intro.
The more accurate Le Guin version will do the same and is the recommended first read.
Tao Te Ching: Ursula K Le Guin Tao Te Ching: Stephen Mitchell
Status: new 30 Nov 2025
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Textnet is a Python-based finger client supporting additional text-only
protocols. Features smart wrapping, HTML rendering and quick script editing.
01 Dec 2025: I will be retiring this app - removing it from this list and the fingerverse file soon. Transitioning to nf (netfinger). It already has an improved HTML renderer over textnet and a few additional features textnet does not have.
License: Blue Oak License
Doc: HTML Doc
Script: textnet.txt
Compatibility: Linux, macOS. Windows 99% Status: archived, wayback
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