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- To: rusty@mail.cornell.edu
- Cc: tbl@cernvax.cern.ch, bcn@june.cs.washington.edu
- Subject: WWW and prospero
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 19:36:05 -0500
- From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
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- Does anyone know about WWW (World Wide Web) and Prospero, and how I can find
- out more information about them? Thanks!
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- Prospero is a remote file system. If you have an archie client (like
- the archie clients at ftp.cs.widener.edu:/pub/archie/) you'll be
- using the Prospero protocol to send queries to the servers. You can
- pick up the server at june.cs.washington.edu:/pub/prospero.tar.Z, and
- look at the documentation in june.cs.washington.edu:/pub/pfs/doc/.
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- WWW is an interesting hypertext system from CERN. You can try it out
- by telnetting to info.cern.ch (login: www) or by ftp'ing the clients
- or servers from that site. What's particularly neat is that you can
- embed references in a WWW document which point to WAIS servers (as
- well as to other WWW documents or files on anonymous FTP) - that makes
- it quite straightforward to build on-line systems with a mix of
- structured menus and searching stuff.
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- I'd compare WWW with "gopher" from U of Minnesota (see
- boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/); both of them would be suitable
- for building a campus-wide information system with. WWW is much more
- of a web with links sending you off hither and yon; selections on
- gopher menus can set you talking to servers a long distance away, but
- it seems from what I've looked at to be much more of a hierarchical
- approach. WWW also lets users design their own menus. You can test
- out gopher by telnetting to consultant.micro.umn.edu, login gopher.
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- Both WWW and gopher offer snappy user interfaces for NeXT machines.
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- Aaron (Rusty) Lloyd Cornell Information Technologies
- rusty@mail.cornell.edu SCAdian, and proud of it!
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- As an aside, it would be really nice if WWW could be taught the
- Prospero protocol like it knows WAIS....
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
- MSEN, Inc. 628 Brooks Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120
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