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- README for zipcode program...
-
- This program has 4 main parts:
- 1) zipcode.txt -- An ascii file of known zipcodes. I you don't
- like my program you can write your own using this file.
- The file is shipped in 8 segments. The last segment is
- a special "annex" of zipcodes in use by army units in operation
- DESERT-STORM.
- 2) lzipcode -- when you make this program, you can search the
- ascii for zipcodes (given the city name) or the city name
- (given the zipcode). This program calls "egrep" to do the
- actual search.
- 3) rpc.zipcoded -- an rpc server to be installed on the same host
- that the zipcode.txt file resides. You need to start the server
- by putting "/usr/etc/rpc.zipcoded &" in your /etc/rc.local file
- and "zipcoded 536871048" in your /etc/rpc file (The
- assignment of 536871048 was arbitrary. If you use a different
- number, change the appropriate numbers in the code).
- 4) zipcode -- an rpc client program which calls rpc.zipcoded.
-
- This is my first use of RPC, so contact the author if you have
- any "improvements".
-
- Maj Brian Boyter
- US Army Foreign Science and Technology Center
- Charlottesville, Va
- boyter@fstc-chville.army.mil
-