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- From: PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu (Peter M. Weiss)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.infonets,alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Tools for determining BITNET paths (source code included)
- Message-ID: <91178.141447PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jun 91 18:14:47 GMT
-
- In article <1991Jun27.155006.29927@ms.uky.edu>, morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
- says:
- >
- >Occasionally, I find that I need to know the path between
- >two BITNET nodes. I developed the tools included below to per-
- >form this task.
-
- Date: Sat, 18 May 91 07:38:35 EDT
- From: BITNODES@AUVM
- Subject: BITNODES Refcard
-
- Processing your query "HELP" at 07:38:36:
-
- * B I T N O D E S
- *
- * BITNODES is a service machine at The American
- * University in Washington DC which will help you
- * find information about BitNet nodes. It uses as
- * its source the official BitNet BITEARN NODES
- * file. This file is updated once per month.
- * BITNODES will accept interactive messages from
- * the BitNet network, or electronic mail
- * ("E-Mail") from BitNet or any connected network.
- * It will respond using the same medium as was
- * used for the request.
- *
- * At AU, the command to interactively message
- * BITNODES would look like:
- * TELL BITNODES command
- *
- * From a VM/CMS system on BitNet the command to
- * interactively message BITNODES would look like:
- * TELL BITNODES AT AUVM command
- *
- * From a VAX system on BitNet the command to
- * interactively message BITNODES would look like:
- * SEND BITNODES@AUVM command
- *
- * Using E-mail, the request should be sent to
- * BITNODES@AUVM.BITNET or BITNODES@AUVM.AUVM.EDU
- * depending on the addressing scheme used at your
- * site to mail to BitNet addresses. The BITNODES
- * command can be either the first line of the mail
- * message, or (if there is no mail message) in the
- * subject.
- *
- * The BITNODES commands are:
- *
- * HELP - this message is returned
- * FIND string - a list of nodes is returned. This
- * is a list of all nodes which have
- * "string" (or something similar to
- * it) in their site name. Example
- * is "FIND AMERICAN". Care should
- * be taken not to search for a
- * commonly used string like
- * "UNIVERSITY" or "COLLEGE".
- * WHOIS nodeid - information is returned about the
- * node you specify. The name of the
- * site, their location, and the
- * names of their contacts are just
- * some of the information returned.
- * Example is "WHOIS AUVM".
- * PATH nd1 nd2 - information is returned showing
- * the BitNet path between the nodes
- * requested (nd1 and nd2). Example
- * is "PATH AUVM UDCVM".
- *
- * For more information, write to Jim McIntosh
- * at JIM@AUVM.AUVM.EDU.
-
- /Pete
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