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authorGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2010-10-06 19:16:02 -0700
committerGlenn Morris <[email protected]>2010-10-06 19:16:02 -0700
commite1a8c4c0464500b01923c75e85e2183154ec60a9 (patch)
tree6f1b9c8b117b671f0211cc669640d7da63e8d865
parent6003ea5325a407a2bed17317f86e25ebe31fb92d (diff)
* doc/misc/eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information.
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--doc/misc/eudc.texi36
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
index accf71c2d6..785d3d425a 100644
--- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-10-07 Glenn Morris <[email protected]>
+
+ * eudc.texi (CCSO PH/QI, LDAP Requirements): Remove old information.
+
2010-10-06 Glenn Morris <[email protected]>
* cl.texi (Usage, Installation): Remove outdated information.
diff --git a/doc/misc/eudc.texi b/doc/misc/eudc.texi
index 48606e0d66..b62c0ed75e 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