Re: simple user access to X.500

Russ Wright <wright@lbl.gov> Wed, 01 April 1992 18:25 UTC

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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1992 08:34:30 -0800
From: Russ Wright <wright@lbl.gov>
To: tpt2@isi.edu
Subject: Re: simple user access to X.500
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk

> Hi.
> 
> We are looking to see if anyone has developed a very specific
> kind of DUA. (Actually we're not sure this is a DUA or something
> else).  
> 
> It should be able to return useful information via a very
> simple command set, something like the old whois. 
> 
> Functionality is not the crucial issue.  Making it lightweight is.
> 

There are also finger interfaces to x.500:

finger 'russ wright'@lbl.gov

LBL X.500 Finger Service.
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