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CCSO PH/QI
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   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.

   The system consists of two parts: a database server traditionally
called `qi' and a command-line client called `ph'.
<ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/packages/ph> is the main distribution
site.  <http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup?Query=.> provides a
listing of the active `qi' servers.

   The original command-line `ph' client that comes with the `ph/qi'
distribution provides additional features like the possibility to
communicate with the server in login-mode which makes it possible to
change records in the database.  This is not implemented in EUDC.