[414] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Access to Internet Guides
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
Wed Jun 3 12:27:44 1992
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 11:15:21 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: "JENNIFER A. HEISE" <jahb@lehigh.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
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From: jahb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JENNIFER A. HEISE)
Subject: Re: (no subject given)
Message-ID: <1992Jun02.231510.156767@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1992 23:15:10 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
In article <PACS-L%92052910342437@UHUPVM1.BITNET>, LB.JVC@ISUMVS.BITNET (Jerry V
. Caswell) writes:
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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.
>
The problem (no criticism intended) with a LAN server & text management
software for Internet guides is that to use the guide, you must have it with
you when using your Internet-accessible microcomputer. Unless you are running
Windows and contacting your mainframe or telneting through a
Windows-compatible software, you can't have have the text where you need it
when you need it-- you still have to print it out or copy it down.
Thus are the information-rich, computer-poor pitted against the trees!
--
Jennifer Heise
Reference Dept., Bitnet: jahb@lehigh
Fairchild-Martindale Libraries #8A Internet: jahb@ns.cc.lehigh.edu
Lehigh University Phone: (215)758-3072
Bethlehem, PA 18015
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.
