From e1a8c4c0464500b01923c75e85e2183154ec60a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:16:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * doc/misc/eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information. --- doc/misc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ doc/misc/eudc.texi | 36 +++++++++++------------------------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog index accf71c2d69..785d3d425a0 100644 --- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2010-10-07 Glenn Morris + + * eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information. + 2010-10-06 Glenn Morris * cl.texi (Usage, Installation): Remove outdated information. diff --git a/doc/misc/eudc.texi b/doc/misc/eudc.texi index 48606e0d664..b62c0ed75ea 100644 --- a/doc/misc/eudc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/eudc.texi @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ complement to the DAP itself. LDAP servers usually store (but are not limited to) information about people such as their name, phone number, email address, office location, etc@enddots{} More information about LDAP can be found at -@url{http://www.openldap.org/} +@url{http://www.openldap.org/}. EUDC requires external support to access LDAP directory servers (@pxref{LDAP Requirements}) @@ -148,17 +148,15 @@ EUDC requires external support to access LDAP directory servers @section CCSO PH/QI The Central Computing Services Office (CCSO) of the University of -Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) created and freely distributes a -directory system that is currently in use in more than 300 organizations -around the world. The system records information about people such as -their address, phone number, email, academic information or any other -details it was configured to. +Illinois at Urbana Champaign created and freely distributed a +directory system that was used by many organizations in the 1990s. +The system records information about people such as their address, +phone number, email, academic information or any other details it was +configured to. Nowadays this system is not widely used. The system consists of two parts: a database server traditionally called -@samp{qi} and a command-line client called @samp{ph}. -@url{ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ph} is the main -distribution site. @url{http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup?Query=.} -provides a listing of the active @samp{qi} servers. +@samp{qi} and a command-line client called @samp{ph}. As of 2010, the +code can still be downloaded from @url{http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/ph/}. The original command-line @samp{ph} client that comes with the @samp{ph/qi} distribution provides additional features like the @@ -225,18 +223,10 @@ email composition buffers (@pxref{Inline Query Expansion}) @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section LDAP Requirements -LDAP support is added by means of @file{ldap.el} which is part of Emacs. +LDAP support is added by means of @file{ldap.el}, which is part of Emacs. @file{ldap.el} needs an external command line utility named -@file{ldapsearch} which is available as part of LDAP toolkits: - -@itemize @bullet -@item -Open LDAP Libraries -(@url{http://www.openldap.org/}) -@item -University of Michigan's LDAP Client software -(@url{http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/}) -@end itemize +@file{ldapsearch}, available as part of Open LDAP +(@url{http://www.openldap.org/}). @node Usage, Credits, Installation, Top @@ -968,7 +958,3 @@ in testing and proofreading the code and docs of @file{ph.el}. @printindex vr @bye - -@ignore - arch-tag: 1b79460b-4ea1-441d-ab45-05ddd16ef241 -@end ignore -- 2.11.4.GIT