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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 9 15:34:42 1994
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 15:34:28 -0500
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, saltzer@MIT.EDU, webmasters@MIT.EDU
To: saltzer@mit.edu
Cc: webmasters,
bug-sipb
Subject: Mosaic and 6.033
(I mentioned this to you after lecture today.)
6.033 has a reading assignment due tomorrow that involves browsing the
World Wide Web:
Internet assignment #2: Read the description of how the
World-Wide web works. Start by firing up xmosaic on Athena by
typing add sipb and then xmosaic. It takes a little while to
get started, at which point you should see the SIPB home page.
Near the bottom is the beginning of the chain you should
follow: Interesting documents -> CERN Home Page -> World-Wide
Web -> Technical. On that page, explore HTML format and
Addressing. It isn't necessary to read everything that is
connected to those pages; you should explore the page itself
and enough other things to be able to talk knowledgeably about
WWW URI's, URL's, and HTML.
I've already had one student come in confused because there's no
xmosaic in the SIPB locker.
* I've posted to the 6.033 discuss meeting giving the proper command
(Mosaic).
* In the future, if a course is going to rely on SIPB software, which
is not necessarily advisable in the first place, we'd appreciate
knowing about it in advance of the assignment. You can send mail to
sipb-staff@mit.edu to let us know.
* One of the sipb-locker maintainers might want to consider making
symlinks from xmosaic to Mosaic in the sipb locker binary directories
for a few days.
Thanks for your time.
--Greg Hudson
Vice Chair, Student Information Processing Board
