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NBP Tool - by Erik Streed © 1995
NBP Tool is a user interface to the AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol
function PLookupName. You pass it an object name, type, and zone
parameters and it kicks back what is on your net. NBP Tool can
be used in several different roles. Lab admins can check to see
what hardware is attached to the net. Game players can see who is
playing which network games. Likewise system admins can see who is
playing network games. Developers can use NBP Tool to debug network
code. Trivia buffs and power users like it too.
NBP Tool starts by forcing you to set parameters for a network
lookup call. The object,type, and zone text fields can be set
to specific names (like "LaserWriter" for the type field or
"My Special Zone" for the zone field), or left to there defaults.
The three special charcters in NBP are the star *, the equal size =,
and the wavey equal sign ≈ (thats option x if this doen't carry
through). * can only be used in the zone field and means to list
only things in your default zone. This is normally your local
network area. The equal sign can be used in the name or type field
and does not limit the lookup by that charcteristic. The wavey
equal sign means fill in the blank. Cases where this is useful
include looking for all printers "≈Writer≈", all Bolo games
"≈Bolo≈", or even all servers "≈Servers≈".
Be fore warned. NBP Tool can generate a large about of traffic if
you do a global (all fields set to =) lookup. This may piss of
your sysadm.
Erik Streed
streed@geom.umn.edu