                      Knowbot Information Service
                          at nri.reston.va.us

TELNET "132.151.1.1" 185
or whatever it takes for you to connect directly to a port

The "Knowbot Information Service" (KIS) is a "white pages" service that
allows you to query one service and have it search several other address
databases of various sorts for addresses matching your query.

DESCRIPTION
     netaddress is an information service that provides a uniform
     user interface to heterogeneous remote information services.
     By submitting a single query to netaddress a user can search
     a  set of remote information services and see the results of
     the search in a uniform format.

EXAMPLES
     In the following examples, `%' is the UNIX prompt and `>' is
     the netaddress prompt.

     % netaddress droms
             Searches the default list of directory  servers  for
             user ``droms''.

     % netaddress
     > service profile@nri.reston.va.us
     > droms

             Searches the profile service at NRI.RESTON.VA.US for
             user ``droms''.

     % netaddress
     > service profile@nri.reston.va.us
     > query droms

             Is identical to the previous example.

     % netaddress -s profile@nri.reston.va.us droms
             Is identical to the previous example.

     % netaddress 'service profile@nri.reston.va.us' droms
             Is identical to the previous two examples.

     % netaddress 'alison brown'
             Searches the default list for a user with first name
             ``alison'' and last name ``brown''.

AUTHOR
     Ralph Droms, rdroms@NRI.RESTON.VA.US
