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- Netfind: University of Colorado
-
- TELNET BRUNO.CS.COLORADO.EDU or 128.138.243.151
- login: netfind
-
- Welcome to the University of Colorado Netfind server.
-
- Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of where
- the person works, Netfind attempts to locate information about the person.
- When prompted, enter a name followed by a set of keywords, such as
- schwartz university colorado boulder
- The name argument specifies the person being sought by first name, last
- name, or login name. The keys describe where the person works. They can
- consist of any combination of strings describing the name of the
- institution, the city/state/country, or the type of institution (e.g.,
- "edu", "com", "mil", etc.) If you know the institution's domain name
- (e.g., "cs.colorado.edu") you can specify it as keys, without the dots
- (e.g., "cs colorado edu"). The first components of host names (e.g.,
- "brazil" in "brazil.cs.colorado.edu") cannot be used as keys. Keys are
- case insensitive and may be specified in any order. Using more than one
- key implies the logical AND of the keys. Because of this, specifying too
- many keys may cause searches to fail. If this happens, try specifying
- fewer keys, e.g.,
- schwartz boulder
- If you specify keys that match a large number of domains, Netfind will
- list some of the matching domains and ask you to form a more specific
- query. Note that you can use any of the words in the organization
- strings (in addition to the domain components) in forming such queries.
-
- When Netfind runs, it displays a trace of the parallel search progress,
- lessalong with the results of the searches. Since output can scroll by
- quickly, you might want to run it in a window system, or pipe the output
- through tee(1):
- rlogin <this server name> -l netfind |& tee log
-
- A number of options exist for the client version of Netfind, which cannot
- be invoked via the telnet/rlogin server interface. If you would like to
- install Netfind locally (which will allow you too run it as a client
- without the telnet/rlogin interface), you can get it by anonymous FTP from
- ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in pub/cs/distribs/netfind. More complete
- documentation is also available in that package.
-