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- From: Charlotte Mooers <mooers@NNSC.NSF.NET>
- To: resource-guide: ;
- cc: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET
- Subject: AN-92-5 A new version of the Resource Guide
- Reply-to: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:19:21 -0500
- Sender: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET
-
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT 92-5
-
- This message is being sent to the FTP, PostScript and Plain Text
- mailing lists, although the news under part (2) applies ONLY to the
- PostScript and Plain Text lists, and news under part (3) applies ONLY
- to the FTP list.
-
- 1) Update news.
-
- Finally, we are up to date. All updates and new entries have been
- incorporated in a new paper version of the Internet Resource Guide is
- currently at the printer. We will begin next week to send out copies
- to people who have already ordered them.
-
- The November 1992 version has seven chapters, divided into a total of
- 150 sections. Each section contains an individual entry. Seventy
- entries were updated in 1992 and 14 are new since November 1991; the
- remaining 66, which date from before November 1991, are "old". We
- expect to get them updated soon. We also hope to get many new entries
- in the near future. If you know of a resource that we should list,
- please send an email message to "resource-guide@nnsc.nsf.net", and we
- will send a template and instructions for preparing the entry.
-
- The front matter is new, and so are the "intro" files for the seven
- chapters. The date for each entry now appears at the end of each
- section title in each of the "intro" files, as well as in the footer
- line in the entry itself.
-
-
- 2) For people on the PostScript and Plain Text mailing lists:
-
- The files in the resource-guide directory on nnsc.nsf.net fully
- reflect the new version. Some of the new and updated entries have
- already been distributed to the PostScript and Plain Text mailing
- lists.
-
- We will begin distributing the rest of the files immediately: first an
- informal "index-resource-guide" file that lists ALL the files
- (including the tarred and compressed files for FTP), then the entries,
- new and updated, that have not yet distributed, and finally the new
- front matter and intro files.
-
- As we noted in AN-92-3 and AN-92-3A, we made a change in the way that
- we send out PostScript files. Internet Resource Guide .ps entries
- were changed to have "---cut-here---" lines. In the interest of
- consistency, we have now added a "---cut-here---" line at the
- beginning of the .txt entries that are distributed through the
- Resource Guide mailing lists.
-
-
- 3) For people on the FTP mailing list:
-
- Give the command "ftp nnsc.nsf.net". Login as "anonymous" with
- password "guest". Give the command "cd resource-guide".
-
- The tarred and compressed files have all been updated. The simplest
- way to update your set of resource-guide files is to ftp the tarred
- and compressed version of the entire set, in either PostScript or
- Text form:
-
- resource-guide.ps.tar.Z [These contain the entire Guide,
- resource-guide.txt.tar.Z including the Front Matter.]
- template.txt
-
- If you want to get individual chapters, or just the changes that
- have been made in each chapter, you can do that, also. For each of
- the seven chapters, 1-6 and M, there is a set of tarred and compressed
- files in the "resource-guide" directory, for example:
-
- chapter1-changes-ps.tar.Z
- chapter1-changes-txt.tar.Z
- chapter1-ps.tar.Z
- chapter1-txt.tar.Z
-
- The "changes" files contain only the files that were
- changed in 1992 and December 1991.
-
- Other files in the resource-guide directory are:
-
- README
- help
- index-resource-guide
- ls-lsR
- overview
- privacy-accuracy
- resource-guide-help
- resource-guide.ps.tar.Z [These contain the entire Guide,
- resource-guide.txt.tar.Z including the Front Matter.]
- template.txt
- wholeguide.txt.Z [This contains the Text version of the
- Guide, compressed but not tarred.]
-
- To get files from the "front-matter" subdirectory, give the command
- "cd front-matter":
-
- copyright.ps
- copyright.txt
- cover.ps
- cover.txt
- intro.ps
- intro.txt
- toc.ps
- toc.txt
-
- To return to the "resource-guide" directory, " cd .."
- Then, if you want the "announce" files, "cd announce"
-
- announce/an-92-1.txt
- announce/an-92-2.txt
- announce/an-92-3.txt
- announce/an-92-3a.txt
- announce/an-92-4.txt
- announce/an-92-5.txt [This file]
-