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PSI White Pages Pilot Project
TELNET WP1.PSI.NET or 192.33.4.21
login: fred
Try "help" for a list of commands
"whois" for information on how to find people
"manual" for detailed documentation
"report" to send a report to the white pages manager
To find out about participating organizations, try
"whois -org *"
FRED(1C) USER COMMANDS FRED(1C)
NAME
fred - a white pages user interface (FRont-End to Dish)
SYNOPSIS
fred [options] [command arguments ...]
whois arguments ... (as in "fred whois smith -org psi")
DESCRIPTION
The fred program is a front-end to the OSI Directory, and in
particular the dish (1c) program. It is most useful as an
interface to the white pages service.
The fred program is meant to be similar to the WHOIS service
familiar to most users of the network. There are some
differences however.
First, users in the white pages are uniquely identified by
their distinguished name, e.g.,
"@c=US@o=Performance Systems International@cn=Manager"
In contrast, users of the WHOIS service are uniquely identi-
fied by their WHOIS handle, a brief key, e.g., "MTR". Since
distinguished names are much longer than WHOIS handles, fred
maintains a list of aliases during its execution. When an
entry for something is retrieved, it is assigned a numeric
alias for its name.
Second, searches in the white pages are relative to an
"area". The default area is set by your system administra-
tor. It can be changed using the area command. Because the
white pages are distributed, searches occurring at higher
areas are more expensive in terms of time, networking
resources, etc.
Third, the white pages are highly structured. As such, you
can potentially retrieve much more detailed information
about an entry. Although the fred should prove useful for
the majority of queries, it is purposefully limited in its
searching capabilities. Users desiring a more powerful
interface, should use dish (1c) directly.
EXAMPLES
The command syntax, while meant to be intuitive, is tedious.
Here are a few simple examples:
whois "smith"
looks for any entries with this name in the default
area (choice of matching on the entry's surname or
fullname is based on the value of the `namesearch'
variable).