EARN info service

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Vazeni,
EARN ohlasuje informacni sluzbu prostrednictvim anon FTP (ftp.earn.net)
a gopherskeho serveru (gopher.earn.net). Zdravi
                                                 Vladimir Vrabec

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 11:10:02 -0600
From: NETTRAIN Moderator <MILLESJG at SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>

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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:24:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Nadine Grange <GRANGE at FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR>

                    EARN INFORMATION SERVICE ANNOUNCED


Official   EARN  documents,   minutes  of   EARN  meetings,   EARN  user
documentation and other  information of interest can now  be accessed by
anonymous FTP  and by  Gopher to  ftp.earn.net and  gopher.earn.net. The
EARN staff welcomes  comments and suggestions for  improvements to these
new  services.  Feedback on  any  EARN  user  services  can be  sent  by
electronic mail to:

      EARNDOC at EARNCC.EARN.NET  (or EARNDOC at EARNCC.BITNET)


THE SERVICE
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Main sets of documents are (Gopher entry | FTP directory name):

EARN Information | general.information
          All you want to know about EARN.

EARN Papers | general.information/earn.papers
          The  papers  discussed during  Board  of  Directors (BoD)  and
          Executive Committee (Exec) meetings, agendas and minutes which
          are publicly  available. The papers  are arranged by  years, a
          short description is given in the index.txt file.

User Services Documentation | doc
          End-user documentation published by  the EARN Association: the
          "Guide to  Network Resource  Tools", electronic mail  from the
          desktop, basic network services, etc.

Documentation on LISTSERV | doc/listserv
          LISTSERV  end-user   documentation:  "LISTSERV   User  Guide",
          reference cards, etc.

Topology and Performance of the Network | graphs
          Network maps and network performance graphs.

EARNEST, the EARN Newsletter | earnest
          Issues of EARNEST, the EARN newsletter.

CNRE - Computer Networks for Research in Europe | cnre
          Issues of "Computer Networks for  Research in Europe", a joint
          publication by EARN and RARE.

Network Services Conference '93 - Warsaw, Poland | nsc93
          Abstracts of the NSC'93 conference - Warsaw, Poland.


GOPHER
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Via  Gopher,  you can  also  consult  publicly available  LISTSERV  list
archives  maintained  at  various   locations  and  get  information  on
EARN/Bitnet nodes (Network information).


FTP ACCESS
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Whenever possible, we respect the following conventions:

.txt      ASCII document.

.ps       PostScript document.

          Whenever  possible, we  try  to provide  an  ASCII version  of
          PostScript documents as well.

.Z        Compressed files, using the standard Unix compress utility.

.gz, .z   Compressed files, using the GNU compress utility, 'gzip'.


The FTP access supports on-the-fly compression and decompression:

Compressed   (.Z)   and    gzipped   (.gz   or   .z)    files   can   be
uncompressed/gunzipped before  retrieval by  excluding the  suffix '.Z',
'.gz' or '.z' from the filename in the 'get' command. Eg,

     uncompress the file 'index.gz' with the command 'get index'

You may also compress or gzip any uncompressed file by adding the suffix
'.Z', '.gz' or '.z' to the filename in the 'get' command. Eg,

     compress the file 'resource-tool-guide.ps' with the command
     'get resource-tool-guide.ps.gz'

Likewise, you may  tar, and then compress or gzip  part of the hierarchy
before retrieval  by adding  the suffix  '.tar', '.tar.Z',  '.tar.gz' or
'.tar.z' to the directory name in the 'get' command. Eg,

     retrieve the directory 'doc' and its sub-directories with
     the command 'get doc.tar.gz'

Don't forget to set the transfer mode to BINARY.


CONTRIBUTIONS
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Our aim  is to  provide network  users with the  information that  is of
interest to them.

If you  want to add more  information to this document  store, send your
suggestion to EARNDOC at EARNCC.EARN.NET (or EARNDOC at EARNCC.BITNET).


STAY TUNED!
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More documents  and links to  other information sources are  being added
constantly.
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