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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry V. Caswell)
Fri May 29 11:38:31 1992
Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 10:25:19 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: "Jerry V. Caswell" <LB.JVC%ISUMVS.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
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At Iowa State we have stopped printing off every Internet directory or
guide that we can acquire through FTP. There are simply too many of them
and they change too often.
Instead we are exploring ways to mount them on a LAN server and make them
available to our users through some text management software.
For that reason only those resources available in ASCII format can be of any
real use to us. I suspect that there are other institutions who feel
similarly. I would encourage anyone producing a guide or directory
in machine readable form to make an ASCII version available for this kind of
application.
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* Jerry V. Caswell * Bitnet: LB$JVC@ISUMVS *
* Assistant Director * Internet: LB$JVC@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU *
* for Automated Systems * *
* Iowa State University Library * Phone: (515) 294-5704 *
* Ames, IA 50011-2140 * FAX: (515) 294-1885 *
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