Pod(1C)

NAME
Pod - X-windows based directory user agent.

SYNOPSIS
pod [ OPTIONS ]

DESCRIPTION

Pod is an x-windows interface to the Quipu implementation of the X500 directory intended for novice users.

X500 is a worldwide directory service providing information on people, places and organizations. As yet it is still in it's infancy and thus the amount of information contained in the directory is limited. The directory can be thought of as an `electronic phonebook'. Like a phonebook, a geographic structure is imposed on the data; no phonebook lists all people in the world in a single alphabetic sequence. It is necessary to have some idea of where a person might be before starting to search for them. The directory is similar; information is held in a hierarchical structure, with data on countries held at the top level of the hierarchy and information on organizations, and the entities contained therein (people, departments etc.), held below this.

Pod relies heavily on the concept of the user 'navigating' around the directory database, At any one time the user occupies a single position in the directory, where this position corresponds to some directory entry, e.g. the country Great Britain. The name of the currently visited entry is shown in the upper right window of pod's main screen. This name has a form similar to that of a postal address, as shown in the example below.

The World
GB
Brunel University

The user can browse below the current position using the search and list functions, details of which can be found using the on-line help system. Information on entries visited is displayed automatically in the lower right window of the main screen.

OPTIONS
Pod supports the command line options listed below.

-c  Bind to named directory system agent. Pod binds to your local dsa, if not otherwise requested.

-u  Bind as the specified user. This name must be a quoted distinguished name.

-p  The password to bind against.

-fn Use named font. The default font is helvetica, with point size 11.

-display
    Run pod on named display. As with all other X applications, pod looks for the environment variable 'DISPLAY' or else runs on 'unix:0.0'.

-fg Set foreground colour.

-bg Set background colour.

SEE ALSO
dish(1c) sd(1c) xd(1c) sd(5)
The ISO Development Environment: User's Manual, Volume 5: QUIPU
ISO 9594: Information Processing -- Open Systems Interconnection -- The Directory

AUTHORS
Damanjit.Mahl@brunel.ac.uk
Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk
Stefan.Nahajski@brunel.ac.uk