Where to find The Online World handbook
The Online World resources handbook
===================================
by Odd de Presno
Updated: January 27, 1998
This handbook deals with the practical side of using the global online
information resource as seen from an international perspective.
It explores selected applications across network and service boundaries
showing how such needs can be met. The examples range from databases to
entertainment and the bizarre to special services for professionals and
organizations.
For more information, send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU with the
following command in the text of your mail: GET TOW.MASTER . You can also
get the file at ftp://listserv.nodak.edu/public/TOW/TOW.MASTER .
Add the command GET TOW.INPRINT for information about how to get a copy of
the book on paper.
Information is also available via the World Wide Web on the following URL:
Web: http://home.eunet.no/~presno/index.html
on the gopher at login.eunet.no (URL: gopher://home.eunet.no/11/1).
.===============================================================.
: Note: The ~ character above is tilde (ASCII character # 126). :
: If you have problems locating it on your keyboard, here's a :
: shortcut. Link to http://home.eunet.no . Use your browser's :
: search feature to locate "Odd de Presno" on the list of :
: offerings. Click and you're home. :
.===============================================================.
It is also on gopher digital.cosn.org . Select Networking Information,
then Reference, and locate The Online World resources handbook on the
menu.
Contents
========
0. HIGHLIGHTS
1. Getting the book using the World Wide Web
2. Getting it by Gopher?
3. Where to get a copy of the most recent version?
3.1 Over the Internet (and BITNET).
4. Where to find earlier versions?
5. How to subscribe to updates to this file?
6. The last version by "snail" mail
7. The TOW (The Online World) mailing list.
8. This document.
=============
0. HIGHLIGHTS
=============
Version 3.4 is is available on the net (see URLs below).
Sites/sources with a "" in the right margin has this version. The others
_still_ have version 3.3 !
Note: There are _no_ differences between files containing the book with
the same version number, unless specifically stated. For example,
the .ZIP compressed versions contain exactly the same words and
formatting as the .TXT versions.
=================
1. World Wide Web
=================
The new version of the handbook is available from the handbook's home page: |
|
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/ |
|
The addresses of the ascii and PKZip compressed versions are: |
|
Version 3.4 |
ONLINE34.ZIP |
|
The hypertext version of the handbook is at |
|
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/ |
|
All versions are regularly mirrored to the following official hosts: |
|
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/ [Norway - source]
http://ftp.tas.gov.au/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Australia]
http://www.iniaccess.net.au/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://www.univie.ac.at/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Austria]
http://ftp.unicamp.br/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Brazil]
http://simtel.correionet.com.br/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Bulgaria]
http://mirror.direct.ca/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Canada]
http://pub.vse.cz/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Czech Rep.]
http://ftp.net.uni-c.dk/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Denmark]
http://ftp.funet.fi/mirrors/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Finland]
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/HOME/fischer/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Germany]
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://www.simtel.iif.hu/presno/bok/ [Hungary]
http://www.hea.ie/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Ireland]
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Israel]
http://serviceftp.flashnet.it/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Italy]
http://ftp.unina.it:21002/presno/bok/
http://kamakura.mss.co.jp/guest/presno/bok/ [Japan]
http://www.iWorld.net/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Korea]
http://archive.bitcon.no/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Norway]
http://www.sorostm.ro/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Romania]
http://ftp.uakom.sk/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Slovakia]
http://ftp.arnes.si/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Slovenia]
http://simtel.saix.net/presno/bok/ [South Africa]
http://simtelnet.is.co.za/presno/bok/
http://ftp.sunet.se/presno/bok/ [Sweden]
http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [Switzerland]
http://www.raksnet.com.tr/presno/bok/ [Turkey]
http://ftp.globalnet.co.uk/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [U.K.]
http://micros.hensa.ac.uk/+misc/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/presno/bok/ [U.S.A.]
http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://ftp.epix.net/simtel.net/presno/bok/
http://download.romt.com/simtel.net/presno/bok/
It can therefore be retrieved (chapter by chapter) by sending email to |
agora@dna.affrc.go.jp. First, retrieve the index page by sending the |
following in the TEXT of your mail: |
|
send http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/index.html |
|
Use the reply as a basis for retrieving the chapters and appendixes. |
|
========= |
2. Gopher |
========= |
|
Information, including the following plain ascii versions of the book |
|
online*.zip |
online.txt |
online.txt.Z |
|
are available at gopher login.eunet.no . |
|
# |
Name=The Online World resources handbook (de Presno) |
Numb=1 |
Type=70 |
Path=1/1 |
Host=login.eunet.no |
|
|
The URL is: gopher://home.eunet.no/11/1 |
|
================================================== |
3. Where to get a copy of the most recent version? |
================================================== |
|
--------------------- |
3.1 Over the Internet |
--------------------- |
The book can be obtained from various sources by using the File Transfer |
Protocol (FTP). FTP is a term used to describe the automated transfer of a |
file from a remote computer system over the Internet, using standard |
protocols. |
|
To retrieve the book over the net, Internet-connected users can ftp to |
ftp.simtel.net. Log on as user 'anonymous'. Change (cd) to the |
/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info directory. The file name is online34.zip (424 KB). |
The URL is: |
|
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/online34.zip |
|
The file online34.zip is compressed with the PKZip utility (version 2.04g). |
Use an uncompress program to turn it into readable text. PKUNZIP version |
2.00, and Info-ZIP's UNZIP50 patchlevel 1, or later versions are good. |
|
Macintosh users: send the line "GET TOW.MAC" to the LISTSERV address given |
above for more information. |
|
If ftp is unavailable, the book may be retrieved by electronic mail to |
ftpmail@ftpmail.bryant.vix.com . Write the following retrieval commands in |
your mail: |
|
connect ftp.simtel.net |
binary |
chdir /pub/simtelnet/msdos/info |
uuencode |
get online34.zip |
quit |
|
European users should use ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (France), and |
BITFTP@DEARN.BITNET (Germany). Ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au (Australia) is |
another option. NOTE: the retrieval command may differ by host. Before |
trying these, request the help file. Send the word HELP in a message |
for instructions. |
|
The received file is encoded. For help with decoding, send electronic mail |
to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU containing the command "GET KIDART.MSDOS1". |
|
Version 3.4 is available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/online34.zip |
|
A plain ASCII text version can be retrieved by ftp from ftp.eunet.no . |
Sign on with username 'anonymous', and use your email address as password. |
The file's name is online.txt, and it has been stored in the /pub/text |
directory. File size: 943 KB. The URL is: |
|
ftp://ftp.eunet.no/pub/text/online.txt |
==================================
4. Where to find earlier versions?
==================================
All previous releases of the handbook are available on ftp.eunet.no. Browse
the /pub/text directory (ftp://ftp.eunet.no/pub/text/) for file names like
these:
Size Date File name Description
------ ------- ---------------- --------------------------
249 Kb Apr 26 online.1.0.txt.Z Compressed file (type: .Z).
256 Kb Apr 26 online.1.1.txt.Z
261 Kb Apr 26 online.1.2.txt.Z
275 Kb Apr 26 online.1.3.txt.Z
289 Kb Apr 26 online.1.4.txt.Z
306 Kb Apr 26 online.1.5.txt.Z
322 Kb Apr 26 online.1.6.txt.Z
338 Kb Apr 26 online.1.7.txt.Z
339 Kb Apr 26 online.1.8.txt.Z
816 Kb Apr 1 online.1.9.txt
348 Kb Apr 1 online.1.9.txt.Z
856091 Apr 9 online.2.0
364549 Apr 9 online.2.0.Z
887798 Jun 9 online.2.1
377379 Jun 9 online.2.1.Z
899023 Aug 24 online.2.2
381927 Aug 24 online.2.2.Z
904902 Nov 13 online.2.3
1266 Nov 13 online.2.3.README
384635 Nov 13 online.2.3.Z
911082 Jan 6 online.2.4
1067 Jan 6 online.2.4.README
386775 Jan 6 online.2.4.Z
924337 Mar 14 online.2.5
1799 Mar 14 online.2.5.README
392001 Jan 14 online.2.5.Z
931587 May 20 online.2.6
1998 May 20 online.2.6.README
395119 May 20 online.2.6.Z
942529 Jul 3 online.2.7
3102 Jul 3 online.2.7.README
401367 Jul 3 online.2.7.Z
953367 Sep 22 online.2.8
885 Sep 22 online.2.8.README
406392 Sep 22 online.2.8.Z
970027 Nov 10 online.2.9
2151 Nov 10 online.2.9.README
415774 Nov 10 online.2.9.Z
976179 Jan 7 online.3.0
1633 Jan 7 online.3.0.README
417772 Jan 7 online.3.0.Z
966649 Mar 29 online.3.1
2338 Mar 31 online.3.1.README
410598 Mar 31 online.3.1.Z
952328 May 24 online.3.2
1945 May 24 online.3.2.README
404936 May 24 online.3.2.Z
955079 Sep 14 online.3.3
1938 Sep 14 online.3.3.README
406009 Sep 14 online.3.3.Z
===========================================
5. How to subscribe to updates to this file
===========================================
This text is usually being updated only when a new version is being shipped.
During this period, however, it is likely to be changed frequently.
Retrieve the most recent version of this file by sending an email to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU. Put the following commands in the TEXT of
your mail:
GET TOW.WHERE
===================================
6. The last version by "snail" mail
===================================
Sure! Just send US$15.00 to Odd de Presno, 4815 Saltrod, Norway. Tell me
the return address, and if you want the book on MS-DOS or Macintosh diskette.
==========================================
7. The TOW (The Online World) mailing list
==========================================
is an information service. It is used for announcements of new updates of
the book. Members can also use it to report and discuss their discoveries
in the Online World.
For information about TOW, send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU. In
the TEXT of your mail, write the command: GET TOW.MASTER
At http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/tow.html , you can search and browse the
TOW list's postings.
================
8. This document
================
This is the TOW WHERE file. To retrieve the most current version of this
file, check ftp://listserv.nodak.edu/public/TOW/TOW.WHERE. You can also get
it by email from LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU. In the TEXT of your mail,
write the command: GET TOW.WHERE
You can also get it on the Web, at
http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/presno/where.html [U.S.A.]
http://home.eunet.no/~presno/where.html [Norway - source]
Feel free to redistribute current versions of the book.
Thanks,
Odd de Presno
;-------------------==> presno@eunet.no <==-------------------------.
: http://home.eunet.no/~presno/presno.html :
: KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15 - http://www.kidlink.org :
`-------------------------------------------------------------------------'