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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).
-