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                     20: .TH GETTABLE 8 "June 24, 1990"
                     21: .UC 5
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: gettable \- get NIC format host tables from a host 
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B gettable
                     26: [
                     27: .B \-v
                     28: ]
                     29: .I host
                     30: [ outfile ]
                     31: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     32: .I Gettable
                     33: is a simple program used to obtain the NIC standard
                     34: host tables from a ``nicname'' server.  The indicated
                     35: .I host
                     36: is queried for the tables.  The tables, if retrieved,
                     37: are placed in the file
                     38: .I outfile
                     39: or by default,
                     40: .IR hosts.txt .
                     41: .PP
                     42: The
                     43: .B \-v
                     44: option will get just the version number instead of the complete host table
                     45: and put the output in the file
                     46: .I outfile
                     47: or by default,
                     48: .IR hosts.ver .
                     49: .PP
                     50: .I Gettable
                     51: operates by opening a TCP connection to the port indicated
                     52: in the service specification for ``nicname''.  A request
                     53: is then made for ``ALL'' names and the resultant information
                     54: is placed in the output file.
                     55: .PP
                     56: .I Gettable
                     57: is best used in conjunction with the
                     58: .IR htable (8)
                     59: program which converts the NIC standard file format to
                     60: that used by the network library lookup routines.
                     61: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     62: intro(3), htable(8), named(8)
                     63: .SH BUGS
                     64: If the name-domain system provided network name mapping well as host
                     65: name mapping,
                     66: .I gettable
                     67: would no longer be needed.

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