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- From: ward@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lynn Ward)
- Subject: Re: How does one obtain and make use of CSO to make phonebooks?
- Message-ID: <BzM5L5.Ist@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <ellis.724558678@nova> <7078@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:29:15 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby) writes:
-
- >In article <ellis.724558678@nova>, ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
- >|> I am working on setting up a gopher as a CWIS. I have a phone dir program
- >|> that uses argv to lookup the different parts of phone entries. I see that
- >|> all of the college sites I have seen so far use CSO. I have not been able
- >|> to locate CSO or any discussion of it. I would rather not reimplement it,
- >|> although I may "enhance" it. Pointers please.
-
- >From the gopher FAQ list:
-
- >Q6: How can I set up a "CSO" phone book server? Where is the software?
-
- >A6: CSO phone book servers are also known as "qi" servers. The
- > software implementation can be gotten via anonymous ftp from
- > uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.50) as /pub/qi.tar.Z. You may also
- > see this referred to as "ph", which is what most of the clients
- > are called. A collected set of clients for Macs, PCs, VMS, VM,
- > etc, are in the /pub/ph.tar.Z file.
-
- > There is also an archive of the mailing list for qi/ph software on
- > the same machine. It's in /pub/info-ph.archive. You may join the
- > list by sending email to info-ph-request@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
-
- > This software is supported by Paul Pomes <p-pomes@uiuc.edu>
-
-
- There is also a newsgroup called info.ph where Nameserver admins can post
- questions and comments. It's worth reading if you're involved with main-
- taining a CCSO Nameserver.
-
- -Lynn Ward, CCSO
-
-
- --
- Lynn Ward
- Network Design Office/Computing and Communications Services Office
- 1304 W. Springfield Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
- e-mail: L-ward1@uiuc.edu
-