SD(1C)

NAME
sd - Full-screen directory user agent.

SYNOPSIS
sd

DESCRIPTION

The sd program implements a simple window interface to an X500 OSI directory. It is derived from an original interface called "widget".

Sd runs on most cursor-addressable terminals, providing a full-screen character-driven interface suitable for novice users. It is based on the notion of "widgets" as characterized by the X-windows system and attempts to simulate button, dialogue and text widgets. Functions are invoked by pressing the initial letter of the function name displayed in the widget.

List and Search operations within the directory are conducted relative to an area displayed in the Search Area widget. An instance of this could be,

“GB, Brunel University.”

List returns a list of entries held below the 'Search Area'. In the above case, a call to list would return a list of departments in Brunel University.

A search is performed on the basis of a search value (or attribute) which describes some aspect of the object (i.e. it's name, location etc.) and a type, which associates the object being searched for with one of a given set of types (i.e. Person, Place, Organization, Department). The search value is displayed in the Search For field and it's type is shown in the Type field. Any search will return a list of objects that match the given search value within the current search area. To display information on or move to a listed object the list number of that object must be entered.

An example of a simple search is shown below. Here the target is the directory object for “Professor Polonius Plum” of Brunel University. The search is initiated with the search area set to “GB, Brunel University.”, a value “Plum” and type “Person”, with the directory then returning,

1 Computer Science, Polonius Plum
2 Law, Plumley Farquarson

Subsequently entering '1' would then give,

commonName      - Polonius Plum
surname         - Plum
userClass       - staff
rfc822Mailbox	- P.Plum@brunel.ac.uk
description	- "ruddy faced and gat toothed"

A standard search strategy in sd, and most other directory interfaces, is to move to a suitable search area, i.e. an “area” in which the real world object is contained, and to then search using an appropriate value and type.

In order to make sd simple to understand there are no facilities for modifying entries.

OPTIONS

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

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

AUTHOR
Damanjit.Mahl@brunel.ac.uk
Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk