From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 29 09:10:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA09255 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from tigerfish.qualcomm.com (tigerfish.qualcomm.com [129.46.4.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA09221 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kurktchi@qualcomm.com) Received: (from kurktchi@localhost) by tigerfish.qualcomm.com (8.8.5/1.4/8.7.2/1.13) id JAA16684; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:07:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:07:18 -0800 (PST) From: Elya Kurktchi Message-Id: <199711291707.JAA16684@tigerfish.qualcomm.com> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Subject: Re: ph Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sorry. ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/local/packages/ph/qi-3.1b7.tar.gz NAME ph -- access to the CSO Nameserver (on-line phone book) DESCRIPTION Ph queries the CSO Nameserver, a database of University faculty, students and staff. The database contains nearly all the information in the Student/Staff Directory (the University phone book), as well as other information, includ- ing electronic mail addresses. For example, we have Ph implemented here on Solaris. To find out about an employee, we "ph" them: tigerfish ~> ph sdorner ---------------------------------------- empno: 1006 name: Dorner, Steve email: sdorner extension: 14479 other_extensions: 217-328-7564 fax: (312) 416-7989 office_location: (off site) title: VP, Technology department: 2790 - SW Engineering/Eudora supervisor: Blakeney, Rob ---------------------------------------- The only thing that I can offer in terms of compiling information is that you may be able to patch it up to the point of compiling, but you will get stuck on the lex part. I've got an older version almost compiled except it barfs on the lex part (lex -> flex v2.5.4). This can be very useful to ISP's and would help freebsd be a better POP3 mail server (since Eudora has PH functionality as well as finger built into it already). I use FBSD 3.0-971003-SNAP with about 7,250 users on one machine and when you finger a user on that machine, it is rather slow; but Ph will provide more information and is faster. elya. >On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Elya Kurktchi wrote: > >> >> hi- could somebody port Ph to freebsd 3.0? -elya > >You could have made that much more likely, if you'd included some >description of what Ph is, and a site for the tarball. As it is, unless >someone already knows what and where it is, it's not terribly likely to >happen. >