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- Internet Tools Summary -- Use Tips
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- by John December (decemj@rpi.edu)
- (This file is still under construction 11 Feb 94).
-
- Copyright (c) 1994 John December You may use this document for any
- personal or educational purpose. For-profit use requires my permission.
- Provided ``as is'' without expressed or implied warranty.
-
-
- This is a file listing quick instructions and tips to use the
- access methods given in the Internet Tools Summary or Information
- Sources files at:
-
- Anonymous ftp Host: ftp.rpi.edu;
- File: pub/communications/internet-tools.readme
- File: pub/communications/internet-cmc.readme
-
-
- EMAIL/LISTSERV
- --------------
- Email (electronic mail) is a very popular way to exchange
- information on the Internet. You can send mail to people or
- to machines (LISTERVs). In order to send email, you need
- to know the email address of the recipient. Then you start
- up your email application, compose, and send the message.
-
- This example is Unix (UCB) mail). $ represents your UNIX prompt.
- This example will get you signed up for HELP-NET, a mailing
- list for new users of the Internet. If you don't want to sign
- up, substitute your own email address for the address of this
- listserv (in other words, practice by sending this mail to
- yourself).
-
- EXAMPLE COMMENTS (don't type these)
- --------------------------------------- -----------------------------
-
- $ mail listserv@templevm.bitnet mail address
- Subject: request to join list have any subject
- sub HELP-NET YOUR NAME YOUR NAME = fill in
- . Ends letter (Unix Mail)
- $
-
- QUICK REFERENCE for LISTSERV:
-
- LN = LISTNAME
- "body contents" (do not include " in your email message).
-
- subscribe
- "subscribe LN YOUR NAME"
- unsubscribe
- "sign off LN"
- "unsubscribe LN"
- stop mail
- "set LN NOMAIL"
- resumes (no back mail)
- "set LN MAIL"
- shows subscriber list
- "review LN"
- conceals your subscription to the list
- "set LN CONCEAL"
- mail acknowledgement
- "set LN ACK"
- acknowledgement of interactive messages only
- "set LN MSACK"
- no acknowledgement
- "set LN NOACK"
-
- FINGER
- ------
- To use finger, you need to know what email address (or machine
- name) you want to access. In this example, you find out
- information about me:
-
- $ finger decemj@rpi.edu
-
- Variations on finger include having a port#.
-
- Finger can also tell you about users logged onto a machine:
-
- $ finger @miller.cs.uwm.edu
-
- FTP
- ---
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used to retrieve or place files
- on computer hosts. Anonymous FTP is a way for files to be
- made available for anyone to get from hosts on the Internet.
-
- To get the anonymous ftp resource called "Internet-cmc" whose
- URL is
- ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
-
- resource anonymous
- name ftp host path name
- | | |
- V V V
- Internet-cmc: ftp.rpi.edu pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
-
- by using ftp, follow this example.
- All the commands you need to do are shown. $ represents your
- Unix (or other Operating System) prompt.
-
- EXAMPLE COMMENTS (don't type these)
- --------------------------------------- -----------------------------
- $ ftp ftp.rpi.edu ftp.rpi.edu = ftp host name
- Name (ftp.host.dom:yourid): anonymous Login as anonymous
- Password: YOURID@YOURHOST.DOMAIN Enter your email address
- ftp> cd /pub/communications change to directory
- ftp> get internet-cmc.txt internet-cmc.txt = file name
- ftp> quit End ftp session
- $
-
- While in ftp, you can try to read a file without downloading it
- like this (sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't):
- ftp> get README |more
-
- Ftp through email
- -----------------
-
- If you don't have ftp access, you can get things at ftp sites by mail.
- This is an example session (your mail might work slightly differently;
- this example is Unix (UCB) mail). $ represents your UNIX prompt.
-
- EXAMPLE COMMENTS (don't type these)
- --------------------------------------- -----------------------------
- $ mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com send email to this host
- Subject: ftp request have any subject
- connect ftp.rpi.edu ftp.rpi.edu = ftp host name
- chdir /pub/communications path to directory
- get internet-cmc.txt internet-cmc.txt = file name
- quit Ends ftp session
- . Ends letter (Unix Mail)
-
- You'll get messages in the mail concerning your request.
-
- GOPHER
- ------
- If you don't have a gopher client, you can use telnet to reach
- the Minnesota gopher:
-
- $ telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu
- Trying 134.84.132.4 ...
- Connected to hafnhaf.micro.umn.edu.
- Escape character is '^]'.
-
- login: gopher
- Internet Gopher Information Client 2.0 pl11
-
- Root gopher server: hafnhaf.micro.umn.edu
-
- --> 1. Information About Gopher/
- 2. Computer Information/
- 3. Internet file server (ftp) sites/
- 4. Fun & Games/
- 5. Libraries/
- 6. Mailing Lists/
- 7. News/
- 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/
- 9. Phone Books/
- 10. Search Gopher Titles at the University of Minnesota <?>
- 11. Search lots of places at the U of M <?>
- 12. UofM Campus Information/
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit Page: 1
-
- HTTP
- ----
- Http stands for hypertext transport protocol, and it is used
- to interchange hypertext information over the Internet.
-
- Use through a Client
- --------------------
- Mosaic is a client application which lets you connect to
- http (as well as other) information. Lynx is another client.
- See the Internet Tools Summary list for information about these
- clients.
-
- URLs
- ----
- A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) identifies
- an Internet resource. In general, URLs take the form
-
- ACCESS://HOST/PATH
-
- Where ACCESS = {ftp, gopher, telnet, ...}
- HOST = the name of the machine
- PATH = the file name, directory name, or other identifying
- information for the resource.
- (there are some more qualifications to this general form,
- but this will get you started.)
-
- For example, the URL for the anonymous ftp resource:
-
- ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
- Means
- ACCESS HOST PATH
- | | |
- | | /---------------------\
- ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-cmc.txt
-
- Use through Email
- -----------------
- If you don't have a WWW client like Mosaic (where you can
- specify an http resource that you want to obtain), you
- can obtain http resources via email.
-
- Send email to listserv@info.cern.ch with the message body:
-
- www URL
-
- for example, the URL for:
-
- CNIDR Web Page: cnidr.org welcome.html
-
- is
- http://cnidr.org/welcome.html
-
- So send the mail:
- $ mail listserv@info.cern.ch
- www http://cnidr.org/welcome.html
- .
-
- and you will receive the welcome.html page in the mail.
- You can obtain the references in this page using this same method.
-
- Use through telnet
- -----------------
- You can access http documents through telent:
-
- telnet info.cern.ch
-
- brings you to the WWW Home Page at CERN.
- To go to a specific URL, enter
-
- go http://cnidr.org/welcome.html
-
- NEWS
- ----
- If Usenet newsreader software is installed on your computer,
- you will be able to access "news." Generally, you can
- start your newsreader (like rn, trn, nn, xrn) by:
-
- $ rn
-
- and then proceed through the Usenet discussion (see help files
- listed in the Internet Tools Summary for more information.)
-
- PHONE
- -----
- For the resources I have listed as "phone" access method,
- use a phone to dial the given number :). I'd like to
- eventually see the day when there will be a URL like this:
-
- <a href="phone://1-202-501-1920">NII Dialup</a>
-
- and with a computer/communications device, you could
- click on a screen and have the computer dial the number.
-
- TELNET
- ------
- You use telnet by knowing the host and (possibly port #
- and password):
-
- $ telnet ctp.org
- Trying 130.150.102.33 ...
- Connected to ctp.org.
- Escape character is '^]'.
-
- SunOS UNIX (eis.calstate.edu)
-
- login: lewisnts
- Last login: Sat Feb 12 03:58:29 from fantom.demos.su
- SunOS Release 4.1.3 (CTP) #4: Fri Jan 28 11:11:54 PST 1994
-
- Welcome to CORE, California Online Resources for Education
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