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- PARADISE Directory Service (Sweden)
-
- TELNET WP.UMU.SE or 130.239.16.15
- Login: de
- Introduction to the Directory Service
-
- The directory service helps you to find out information about people and
- the organisations they work for: in particular it can provide electronic
- mail addresses, postal addresses and telephone and facsimile numbers.
- Once you have provided information about a person's NAME and where they
- are based, the directory service will search various local and remote
- databases to try and find information about people with a name matching
- the one you have given.
-
- The directory service can, of course, only find entries for people who
- work for organisations who are participating in this pilot service. At
- the time of writing (May 1991), there are over 400 participating
- organisations and approximately 350,000 individual entries in the
- Directory.
-
- If you cannot find an entry for the person you are looking for, it may
- be that the entry is in the Directory but that the Directory Service
- does not recognise the name you have provided. In this case, you might
- like to BROWSE the Directory: you can list people within a DEPARTMENT,
- DEPARTMENTs within an ORGANISATION, ORGANISATIONs within a COUNTRY, and
- the list of countries with participating ORGANISATIONs.
-
- When using the directory service, you will be prompted to type in:
- SPACE for next screen; q to quit:
- :- the NAME of the person whose address you are looking for
- (e.g. "Paul Barker", or "P Barker", or even just "Barker"))
-
- :- their DEPARTMENT
- (e.g. "Computer Science")
-
- :- the ORGANISATION they work for
- (e.g. "University College London", or "UCL")
-
- :- the COUNTRY in which the ORGANISATION is based
- (e.g. "gb", "uk" or "Britain" for Great Britain).
-
- The line above the prompt (:- ) indicates what information the system is
- expecting. This line also indicates the default (what the directory
- service will fill in as information if you just press the RETURN key).
-
- On line HELP is always available: type
-
- ? for HELP on information currently expected
- ?? for HELP on HELP (how to use on-line HELP)
-
- SPACE for next screen; q to quit: ?TERM for HELP on any topic, where
- TERM is any of the words displayed in capital letters in this and any
- other HELP screen
-
- Further useful commands:
-
- Control-C to abandon whatever you are doing: i.e.
- abandon a current query and allow for the entry of another query;
- abandon the entry of a query and allow the re-entry of the query;
- if no current query, exit the Directory Service.
-
- q to quit the directory service, when given in response to a
- request for a person's name
-