Tools for determining BITNET paths (source code included)
Peter M. Weiss
PMW1 at psuvm.psu.edu
Fri Jun 28 04:14:47 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun27.155006.29927 at ms.uky.edu>, morgan at 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 at 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 at AUVM command
*
* Using E-mail, the request should be sent to
* BITNODES at AUVM.BITNET or BITNODES at 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 at AUVM.AUVM.EDU.
/Pete
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Peter M. Weiss | pmw1 @ PSUADMIN | psuvm.psu.edu|psuvm
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