online14.zip

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Pratele,

Presno vydal novou verzi sve elektronicke knihy "The Online World". Rozsireni
oproti predchozi verzi udava pripojeny e-dopis. Zajemci si ji nemuseji
pracne kopirovat ze zahranici, je jiz v CESNEtu na plzenskem FTP serveru
(280 kb). Jeji URL je:

ftp://ftp.zcu.cz/pub/.1/info/online14.zip
                                                   Vladimir Vrabec
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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 19:15:56 +0100
From: Odd de Presno <presno at grida.no>
Subject: For immediate release - new version of the online world book


        *** NEW RELEASE OF THE ONLINE WORLD SHAREWARE BOOK ***

                     - Internet and beyond -

The Online World is a book about the  practical use of the  GLOBAL  online
information resource.  It describes resources on major global networks and
services as the Internet, Usenet, BITNET, Fidonet, Echo, CompuServe, DIMDI,
NIFTY-Serve, and others.

The book explores selected applications across country, network and service
boundaries showing how needs can be met.  The examples range from databases
to entertainment and the bizarre to special services for  professionals and
organizations.

The following major changes have been done to the book since its last
release:

Version 1.4  March 10, 1994
---------------------------
This update focuses on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business
applications in particular, while strengthening the European pointers.

* New sources for news, conferences, gophers, and more for China, Japan, the
  Middle East, Israel, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Australia/New Zealand,
  Brazil, Mexico, xUSSR countries, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, and other
  countries. Includes some Spanish language services.
* Network Service Providers Around the World
* The Directory of Information Services in China
* The KOI-8 (Russian/Cyrillic character) coding scheme.
* The No>m standard code (Vietnam)
* Some official information sources for the United States and Canada.
* Pointers for Cello, Lynx, Mosaic, PPP, SLIP, FreeWAIS, Winsock, Binhex
* Special Internet Connections
* Updated pointers to the WHOIS service, the Interest Groups List of Lists,
  NET-RESOURCES, and RFCs.

To retrieve the book over the net, Internet-connected users can ftp to
OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117). Log on as user 'anonymous'. Change (cd)
to the /pub/msdos/info directory. The file's name is online14.zip (284KB).

The file has been 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.

If ftp is unavailable, the book may be retrieved by electronic mail to
ftpmail at decwrl.dec.com . Write the following retrieval commands in your
mail:

  connect oak.oakland.edu
  binary
  chdir /pub/msdos/info
  uuencode
  get online14.zip
  quit

A plain ASCII text version can be retrieved by anonymous ftp from
ftp.eunet.no . The file online.txt is stored in the /pub/text directory
(694730 bytes). Sign on with username 'anonymous', and use your email
address as password.

A compressed version, called  online.txt.Z  (296361 bytes), is available
from  /pub/text at ftp.eunet.no . For instructions about how to make the
EUnet Norway mailserver give you these files, send an electronic mail to
mailserver at eunet.no containing the single line "HELP" .

The book is also available from a number of other sources. For an up-to-
date list of where to get it, send email to LISTSERV at vm1.nodak.edu with
the following command in the TEXT of your mail: GET TOW WHERE


         Thanks,

      Odd de Presno
(Author, living in Norway)
 <opresno at extern.uio.no>
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