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- In many cases, the Directory will be able to resolve queries successfully,
- even if you enter names which do not exactly match the names in the Directory.
- However, you may find that the Directory will fail to find a match, which
- appears to be almost correct. The following query provides such an example:
-
- person> kille
- department> computing science
- organisation> ucl
- country> gb
-
- In this case, the Directory Service returns with the message: "No departments
- match `computing science'", although the correct name of the department,
- "computer science", is very similar.
-
- The reason for this failure is that too much information has been provided
- for approximate matching to work. In general, the less you type, the more
- matches the system will return. Thus, entering "comp" at the department
- prompt will obtain the following response:
-
- Got the following approximate matches. Please select one from the list
- by typing the number corresponding to the entry you want.
-
- 1 Computer Science
- 2 Computerised Tomography
-
- Alternatively, typing "comp sci" will obtain the following matches:
-
- 1 Central Computing Service
- 2 Computer Science
-
- You may find that the system will occasionally return some "matches" which
- you find hard to understand - the approximate matching uses phonetics if
- more precise matching is not possible.
-
- See the help screen on WILDCARDS for details on how to exercise more control
- over the type of matching used by this service.
-