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.Nd Internet user name directory service
looks up records in the Network Information Center
The options are as follows:
Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (nic.ddn.mil).
The operands specified to
are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to
The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special
is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to
in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net
address, etc.) in the database.
For more information as to what
operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use