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- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Subject: Volunteers needed to port e-mail directory program
- Message-ID: <dank.714087898@blacks>
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- Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:44:58 GMT
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- I'm looking for volunteers to help port a simple but very useful
- Internet access tool to VMS, MS-DOS, and the Mac. The tool is
- called 'uwho', and it lets the average Joe User look up Internet e-mail
- addresses quickly without knowing much about the Internet.
-
- The tool is novel because it knows about all the publicly available
- whois and ns servers on the Internet. Currently, it provides access
- to over 300,000 e-mail addresses, but this number is increasing as
- more organizations set up whois servers.
- It is also efficient; it finishes in ten seconds or so, and in contrast to
- 'netfind', does not thrash the internet with hundreds of 'finger' requests.
-
- uwho will be posted to comp.sources.reviewed soon (I hope) and will
- be placed in the public domain. The initial version runs under Unix,
- and is about 400 lines of C and 200 lines of Bourne shell script; it could
- just as well be about 400 lines of Perl or 600 lines of C.
- Unfortunately I have neither the time nor expertise to port it to non-Unix
- systems. Please, if you are interested in encouraging the use of e-mail
- and think you have the skills and time to port this program, drop me a
- line at dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov. The Net will thank you.
- [ Sorry about the crosspostings, but I didn't know how else to reach
- the diverse group of developers needed. ]
- - Dan Kegel
-
- --- uwho's README follows ---
- uwho is a simple tool for accessing the many whois and ns servers
- on the Internet. It lets you look for somebody's e-mail address
- without knowing the details of where such information is kept.
- A large part of its power comes from its ability to download an
- up-to-date list of whois and ns servers via FTP.
-
- "uwho person organization"
- searches for whois or ns servers matching the given organization name,
- then uses a quick version of whois and/or ph to search for peronsal information.
- All network access is done in parallel, and completes in about ten
- seconds.
-
- It is intended for use on any Unix system, but has only been tested
- with SunOS 4.1.1, NeXT 2.0, HP/UX, and Ultrix.
-
- It requires a Bourne shell /bin/sh with job control (a Berkeley-ism)
- because it uses job control to run several searches in parallel.
-
- Author: Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)
- Legal status: This software is in the public domain...
-