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Request: info
Topic: help
Document Updated: 21 jan 93
Subject: 'Help' for request 'info' in the NNSC Info-Server
'HELP' FOR THE NNSC INFO-SERVER
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION - WARNINGS
2. THE 'REQUEST:' COLLECTIONS - SELECTED DOCUMENTS
3. CURRENT STATUS OF THE INFO-SERVER
4. DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT USING THE INFO-SERVER
5. IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LARGE MESSAGES
6. ANONYMOUS FTP FOR INTERNET AND DIAL-UP IP USERS
******************************************************************************
1. INTRODUCTION - WARNINGS
******************************************************************************
The National Science Foundation Network Service Center (NNSC) operates
the Info-Server for the purpose of providing important Internet
documents by email.
* HELP: There is now one general 'help' document for the whole
Info-Server, which is the file you are now reading. It contains
over-all information about 'Request:' categories, and samples of
the most important or recent 'topic:' files under each 'Request:'.
To order this document, Send a message to info-server@nnsc.nsf.net.
The Subject field does not matter and may be omitted. Place the
following text in the body of the message:
request: info
topic: help
This is the only 'Topic: help' in the Info-Server, and can be ordered
from any of the 'Request:' categories
* INDEXES: In most collections of information on the Internet, an
'index' is the name for a list of the files in the collection.
To order an 'index' of topics for a request category, e.g., nsfnet,
use either of the following:
Request: nsfnet
Topic: index-nsfnet
or
Request: nsfnet
Topic: index
*****************************************************************
* WARNING - SEND REQUESTS TO INFO-SERVER *
* To prevent failed messages from causing infinite loops, the *
* mail address 'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net' is placed in the From: and *
* Reply-To: field of the documents sent by the automated Info- *
* Server. But please do NOT use 'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net' when you *
* order documents from the automated Info-Server. You should *
* send document requests to 'info-server@nnsc.nsf.net'. *
*****************************************************************
* WARNING - RESTRICTION ON THE NUMBER OF TOPICS PER MESSAGE *
* The current version of the Info-Server ignores requests for *
* more than twenty (20) topics. Please restrict the number *
* of "topic:" lines in any request message to twenty (20) or *
* fewer. You may, however, send any number of separate *
* request messages. For more information about ordering, see *
* Section 4 of this document. *
*****************************************************************
******************************************************************************
2. THE 'REQUEST:' COLLECTIONS - SELECTED DOCUMENTS
******************************************************************************
(Size in Kbytes if >40K)
Requests and Topics Descriptions
(Use in request messages) (Do NOT use in request messages.)
REQUEST: CALENDAR EVENTS OF INTEREST TO THE INTERNET COMMUNITY
TOPIC: index-calendar List of CALENDAR documents
TOPIC: jan Calendar for each of twelve consecutive
months, starting with the current month:
jan, feb, mar, etc.
REQUEST: IESG IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG)
TOPIC: index-iesg List of minutes of IESG meetings
REQUEST: IETF INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE (IETF)
TOPIC: index-ietf List of IETF documents
TOPIC: 00README Help for IETF collection.
TOPIC: 0... Information about upcoming meetings.
(Files begin with 0 (zero). The "..."
is NOT part of the file name.)
TOPIC: 1directories.txt Information about IETF and INTERNET-DRAFTS
collections of files.
TOPIC: 1... General information about the IETF, the
working groups, and the internet-drafts.
(Files begin with 1 (one). The "..."
is NOT part of the file name.)
REQUEST: INFO GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
TOPIC: help Help for the Info-Server (this document)
TOPIC: index-info List of INFO documents
TOPIC: domain-info.txt Top and second-level domains (62K)
TOPIC: domains.txt Top domains with IP numbers
TOPIC: interest-groups Mailing lists (List of Lists) (872K)
REQUEST: INTERNET-DRAFTS MIRROR OF FILES ON NIC.DDN.MIL
(An Internet Draft is a document that has
been proposed to become an RFC.)
TOPIC: index-internet-drafts List of INTERNET-DRAFTS
TOPIC: 1id-abstracts.txt Short synopsis of each document. (81K)
REQUEST: INTERNET-SOCIETY See REQUEST: ISOC
REQUEST: INTERNET-TOUR INTERNET OVERVIEW FOR NOVICE NETWORK USERS
(This Hypercard 2 stack requires a MacIntosh
System Version 6.0.2 or higher.)
TOPIC: index-internet-tour List of INTERNET-TOUR documents
TOPIC: Internet-Tour-README How to Get and Install the INTERNET TOUR
TOPIC: Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx Internet Tour files, compressed and
stored in binhex format
REQUEST: ISOC INTERNET SOCIETY (ISOC)
Topic: index-isoc List of ISOC documents
Topic: announcement Announcing the formation of the ISOC
Topic: charter The ISOC charter
Topic: inet-conference Networking Conference, June 1992
Topic: questions-and-answers Perspective on ISOC objectives
REQUEST: NSFNET DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE NSFNET
TOPIC: index-nsfnet List of NSFNET documents
TOPIC: internet-overview NSFNET Overview and Introduction
TOPIC: nnsc What is the NNSC?
TOPIC: networks Networks on the NSFNET Backbone
TOPIC: referral-list NNSC Network Provider List
REQUEST: PHONEBOOK INTERNET MANAGER'S PHONEBOOK
TOPIC: index-phonebook List of PHONEBOOK documents
TOPIC: README Announcement of Online Phonebook
TOPIC: phonebook.txt Electronic version of the printed
'Internet Manager's Phonebook'
published by the NNSC.
REQUEST: POLICIES-PROCEDURES Information about the policies and procedures
of the NSFNET and its associated networks.
TOPIC: index-policies-procedures
REQUEST: RESOURCE-GUIDE NNSC'S OWN GUIDE TO INTERNET TREASURES
TOPIC: index-resource-guide List of RESOURCE-GUIDE documents
TOPIC: README Help file for getting the Resource-
Guide by FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
TOPIC: front-matter cover, introduction, list of chapters, etc.
[For a description and list of sections for each chapter, see below.]
TOPIC: intro1 Chapter 1. Computational Resources
TOPIC: intro2 Chapter 2. Library Catalogs
TOPIC: intro3 Chapter 3. Archives
TOPIC: intro4 Chapter 4. White Pages
TOPIC: intro5 Chapter 5. Networks
TOPIC: intro6 Chapter 6. Network Information Centers
TOPIC: introM Chapter M. Miscellaneous
REQUEST: RFC RFCS FROM NIC.DDN.MIL
TOPIC: index-rfc List of RFC and FYI documents (46K)
TOPIC: fyi-index.txt The official list of FYI (For Your
Information) documents. Each FYI is
also an RFC.
TOPIC: rfc-index.txt The official list of RFCs (168K)
TOPIC: rfc-by-author.txt List of RFCs, sorted by author (25K)
TOPIC: rfc-by-title.txt List of RFCs, sorted by title (68K)
TOPIC: rfcNNNN Individual RFC, where NNNN stands for a
3 or 4 digit number, e.g., RFC822 or
RFC1340.
REQUEST: THE-SCIENTIST THE SCIENTIST NEWSPAPER
TOPIC: index-the-scientist List of available issues of "The Scientist"
and other documents.
TOPIC: overview Overview of "The Scientist" newspaper project
TOPIC: the-scientist-yymmdd Individual issue of "The Scientist" where
yymmdd is a date, e.g., 921109 = 9 Nov 92.
******************************************************************************
3. CURRENT STATUS OF THE INFO-SERVER
******************************************************************************
NNSC, the NSF Network Service Center, and CSNET, the Computer+Science
Network, shared the operation of the Info-Server on the host sh.cs.net
until CSNET ceased operations on September 25, 1991. At that time,
the Info-Server was taken over by the NNSC and moved to the host
nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net. The NNSC Info-Server continues to supply on-line
services to the Internet community and to other networks that have
email access to the Internet.
The NNSC Info-Server continues to distribute Info-Server documents for
request categories NSFNET, CALENDAR, and RESOURCE-GUIDE. In addition,
we have added the former CSNET request categories INFO and RFC, and
the new categories IESG, IETF, INTERNET-DRAFTS, INTERNET-TOUR, ISOC,
and PHONEBOOK.
We have had to suspend temporarily the popular request category
MOD-SOURCES (comp.sources.unix), but we hope to be able restore it in
the near future.
The NNSC staff is reviewing and modifying the NNSC Info-Server
offerings. Further changes will be announced in this HELP document.
If you have questions or suggestions, send them to
'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net'.
You are encouraged to suggest additional documents you would like to
have available from the NNSC Info-Server.
Thank you.
The NNSC Staff
******************************************************************************
4. DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT USING THE INFO-SERVER
******************************************************************************
*****************************************************************
* WARNING - SEND REQUESTS TO INFO-SERVER *
* To prevent failed messages from causing infinite loops, the *
* mail address 'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net' is placed in the From: and *
* Reply-To: field of the documents sent by the automated Info- *
* Server. But please do NOT use 'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net' when you *
* order documents from the automated Info-Server. You should *
* send document requests to 'info-server@nnsc.nsf.net'. *
*****************************************************************
* WARNING - RESTRICTION ON THE NUMBER OF TOPICS PER MESSAGE *
* The current version of the Info-Server ignores requests for *
* more than twenty (20) topics. Please restrict the number *
* of "topic:" lines in any request message to twenty (20) or *
* fewer. You may, however, send any number of separate *
* request messages. *
*****************************************************************
The NNSC Info-Server is an automatic program that delivers information
by electronic mail. To order a document from the Info-Server, send a
message to 'INFO-SERVER@nnsc.nsf.net'. You do not need a subject field. The
text of your message must be in a special format, such as:
REQUEST: INFO
TOPIC: HELP
TOPIC: INDEX
REQUEST: END
This request asks for two documents 'HELP' (this document) and 'INDEX'
from the collection 'INFO'. Your message must have a 'REQUEST:' line,
and one or more 'TOPIC:' lines to specify one or more documents. As
noted above, you should not put more than twenty (20) 'TOPIC:' in any
one request message. 'REQUEST:' and 'TOPIC:' must be on a separate
lines. The line 'REQUEST: END' is optional; it tells the Info-server
to ignore the rest of the message.
To send documents to an address that is different from the address in
your From: field, include a Reply-to: field in the header of your
message. Do NOT include a Reply-to: or Acknowledge-to: field in the
body of the message -- the Info-Server won't recognize them.
For each request message, the Info-Server generates a receipt message
which includes the list of documents sent, a report of errors in the
request, and, if a Reply-to: field is used, the address in the From:
field of the request message. (The Info-Server does not generate
receipt messages for request messages with more than twenty (20)
'TOPIC:' lines.)
You may combine different requests in the same message, and use any
combination of upper- and lower-case letters in your text. You may
also include or omit spaces and tabs, use any number of 'REQUEST:'
lines, place any number of 'TOPIC:' lines under each 'REQUEST:', and
omit 'REQUEST: END'.
REQUEST : info
byte-limit: 22000
topic: interest-groups (Byte-limit in effect; see below)
topic: domain-info.txt
request: internet-drafts
TOPIC: 1id-abstracts.txt (Byte-limit not in effect)
Request : rfc
TOPIC : rfc822
If you include 'REQUEST: END', the Info-Server will ignore whatever
follows in your message. Please do NOT put questions for the NNSC
staff in the request messages to the info-server. Send them directly
to 'nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net'.
******************************************************************************
5. IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LARGE MESSAGES
******************************************************************************
The NNSC Info-Server is now configured to split documents into a
maximum size of 40000 bytes (40K bytes). The reason is that some
important mail gateways reject messages longer than an arbitrary limit,
and others have difficulty with long messages from time to time.
You may specify a limit, in lines or bytes, to the maximum size of
document that you wish to have sent in a single message. For example:
LINE-LIMIT: 1000 or BYTE-LIMIT: 25K
The Info-Server will break the documents at exactly the specified
number of lines, or at the line preceding the specified number of
bytes. The minimum limit is 250 lines or 19000 bytes. You may use
the form '25000' or '25K' in either limit, but NOT '5,000'. The limit
affects only lines up to the next REQUEST: line.
To allow for added header lines, you should set your limit at least 5K
lower than the limit set by your gateway.
******************************************************************************
6. ANONYMOUS FTP FOR INTERNET AND DIAL-UP IP USERS
******************************************************************************
You may use the file transfer protocol, 'ftp', to retrieve documents
from NNSC.NSF.NET. Log in as 'anonymous' with password 'guest'.
Info documents are individual files in the directory 'info'. For
example, a copy of 'interest-groups-announcement' has the pathname
'info/interest-groups-announcement'. To see what is in the top-level
directory, use the 'ls' or 'dir' commands. 'ls' shows filenames only;
'dir' is the equivelent of the command 'ls -ls'; it shows a more
verbose display, and puts the filenames in alphabetical order.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list.
test
info
calendar ...
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 1845 ...
drwxr-xr-x 2 nnsc nnsc 512 Apr 20 1987 bin
drwxrwxrwx 2 nnsc nnsc 1024 Jan 27 21:01 calendar
drwxr-xr-x 2 nnsc nnsc 512 Dec 16 03:38 dev ...
You can use 'ls' or 'dir' to show pathnames of lower-level
directories on nnsc.nsf.net.
ftp> dir info/i*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nnsc nnsc 7774 Feb 4 15:58 iin
-rw-r--r-- 1 nnsc nnsc 4565 Jul 17 06:15 index-info
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nnsc nnsc 879381 Apr 6 14:15 interest-groups
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nnsc nnsc 2156 Feb 5 20:02 interest-groups-announcement
But note that when you transfer a file from a lower-level directory
nnsc.nsf.net (the remote host) to your local host, you cannot use the
pathname 'info/interest-groups-announcement'; instead, you must use two
commands, 'cd' (change directory) and 'get'.
ftp> cd info
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get interest-groups-announcement
To return to the top-level directory, type
ftp> cd /
A single topic may be split up into multiple files, in which case the
document name may be a directory, and the individual files in the
directory may have names such as 'part01'.
nnsc.nsf.net is a Unix host, so type all filenames as either upper or
lower case, just as they appear in the 'ls' or 'dir' listing.