[9] in Information Retrieval
[Paul Jones : new libtel+++]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Wed Sep 4 19:00:23 1991
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 91 18:59:22
From: tjm@eagle.mit.edu (Tim McGovern)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
As mentioned today in the elibraries systems meeting...Could someone snarf this
off the net, and see if we can get it work here.
Tim
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From: Paul Jones <pjones%mento.oit.unc.edu@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
Subject: new libtel+++
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We've enhanced libtel, the unix shell script that let's you access
libraries and databases all over the world, quite a bit.Now we're
ready to make it available to the world via anonymous ftp on
samba.oit.unc.edu as pub/docs/libtel.
---What it is--
libtel is a unix shell script that allows menu-ed access to about 190
libraries plus a number of interesting public access databases and
bulletin boards.
---What it requires--
tn3270, which is also available on samba as
pub/tn3270/disttn3270.unc.tar.Z
Your host should be also running DNS (aka BIND aka named aka name
service) for name resolution.
--What we've added--
These services:
Ham Radio Call Book
National Science Foundation
Geographical Server
Weather Server
These BBSs:
Cleveland Free-net
Endless Forest
Mars Hotel
Nyx BBS
Youngstown Freenet
Quartz BBS
These countries:
(AU) Australia
(CA) Canada
(UK) United Kingdom
(DE) Germany
(IL) Israel
(MX) Mexico
(NZ) New Zealand
--How to try it before you get it (or after)--
telnet samba.oit.unc.edu
login:bbs
Follow the instructions to get an id.
From the main menu select:
9. On-line Information Systems
Enjoy
--Comments, Compliments, and Corrections--
Send'em to Terry Mancour <mancour@samba.oit.unc.edu>
or Paul Jones <pjones@mento.oit.unc.edu>
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