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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:50:11 EST
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- From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
- Subject: December Hunt Results (from NETTRAIN) (1 of 2)
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- From: Rick Gates <LB05GATE@ucsbuxa.bitnet>
- Subject: December Hunt Results
- To: Multiple recipients of list NETTRAIN <NETTRAIN@ubvm.bitnet>
-
- **********************************************************
- * *
- * December Internet Hunt *
- * *
- * RESULTS *
- * *
- * (Watch out! 617 lines in this message) *
- **********************************************************
-
- The results are in. The winner is:
-
- Calvin Boyer
- Library
- University of California, Irvine
-
- Calvin scored a total of 41 points out of a maximum of 42 in an
- entry dated Tue, 01 Dec 92 19:52:40 -0800.
-
- One of the distinguishing features of Calvin's effort was his
- almost total reliance on a single gopher server. Here is his
- own words:
-
- >As an experiment to see how far I could go using only one of
- >the more robust gopher servers (University of California -
- >Santa Cruz InfoSlug), I limited my first round assistance to
- >INFOSLUG. The number of answers with the InfoSlug tag is most
- >illustrative.
- >
- >and it takes longer to type the answers than to find!
-
- Congratulations Calvin, on a job well done!
-
- STATISTICS
- ----------
-
- The number of players was down this month, partly (I suspect),
- due to the usually frantic end-of-the-term activities occurring
- in academic centers around the world.
-
- Number of players: 11
-
- Number of comments: 32
-
- COMMENTS ABOUT THIS HUNT
- ------------------------
-
- As our winner has already pointed out, the InfoSlug Gopher at
- UC Santa Cruz provides a good starting point for network
- searches.
-
- As expected Veronica is already becoming a vital tool. Roughly
- half of all gopher solutions sent by this month's players used
- Veronica.
-
- THE USUAL
- ---------
-
- If any player would like a copy of their individual results,
- please feel free to send me a message.
-
- ASIDE
- -----
- In response to the proliferation of Network tools named after cartoon
- characters (Archie, Veronica), I propose that we come up with a new
- maxim for Cybernauts:
-
- "Just Use Gopher Heavily, Especially After Dark"
-
- Well, now for something completely different:
-
- GOPHER/ALIAS HINT (3 or 4 screens of info)
- -----------------
-
- I thought that maybe people would be interested in a how I've
- been using aliases with the gopher command. I'm on a Unix
- system here, and I can can use the alias command to cut down on
- keystrokes. For instance when I type the letter 'm' and hit
- return, I get put into my emacs mailer. That's because I have
- the following line in my .login file:
-
- alias m emacs -f rmail
-
- In other words, 'm' becomes an alias (substitute, synonym) for
- the command 'emacs -f rmail'.
-
- This sort of facility is availble on other, non-Unix platforms
- as well.
-
- The way I use this feature with Gopher revolves around the fact
- that you can always find out what address and directory you are
- connected to with Gopher. For instance from the following menu
- on my local Gopher server:
-
- Other Gopher and Information Servers
-
- 1. Univ of Minnesota Gopher Server/
- 2. Other Gopher and Information Servers/
- 3. Apple Computer Higher Education Gopher Server/
- 4. UCB Berkeley Gopher Server/
- 5. University of California - Irvine/
- --> 6. Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)/
-
- ...if I press '=', I will get a screen that looks like this:
-
- Name=Veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)
- Type=1
- Port=70
- Path=1/Veronica
- Host=futique.scs.unr.edu
-
- This gives us the name of the menu choice, the type (1 is a
- directory), the port, the directory path, and the address of
- the remote host. Here's how I can use this info.
-
- My Gopher client, and I suspect many others, allows for the
- specification of path, address and port on the command line.
- So if I type the following command:
-
- gopher -p 1/Veronica futique.scs.unr.edu 70
-
- ...then after a short pause I will see the following screen
-
- Root gopher server: futique.scs.unr.edu
-
- --> 1. About Veronica.
- 2. Search many (300) Internet gopher menus by _SINGLE_ keyword <?>
- 3. About the reduced-redundancy search.
- 4. Proposals for Veronica Development.
-
- As I frequently do Veronica searches, it's useful for me to
- create an alias for this command. Thus a line in my .login
- file reads:
-
- alias ver "gopher -p 1/Veronica futique.scs.unr.edu 70"
-
- Now, rather than having to traverse a number of Gopher menus to
- get to the Veronica search screen, I simply type 'ver' and I am
- there!
-
- This can be a real time saver for any set of Gopher resources
- that you need to visit regularly. For instance, rather than
- having to choose:
-
- Other gophers
- North America
- U.S.A
- page down several times
- Choose UC Santa Cruz InfoSlug system
-
- I simply type 'slug' from my system prompt, and I am there
- because of the following line in my .login file:
-
- alias slug "gopher scilibx.ucsc.edu 70"
-
- How did I get the information for my gopher command? I simply
- pressed '=' from the following menu:
-
- USA
-
- 109. Texas A&M/
- 110. UCCSN System Computing Services Gopher (Las Vegas, Nevada)/
- 111. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/
- 112. University System of Georgia Information Service/
- 113. University of California - Berkeley, Open Computing Facility/
- 114. University of California - Berkeley, Workstation Support Services/
- 115. University of California - Irvine/
- 116. University of California - Irvine, Information & Computer Science/
- 117. University of California - San Francisco, UCSFYI Experimental Gop/
- 118. University of California - Santa Barbara/
- --> 119. University of California - Santa Cruz, InfoSlug System/
- 120. University of Chicago (under construction)/
- 121. University of Colorado, Boulder/
- 122. University of Delaware gopher server/
- 123. University of Florida (experimental)/
- 124. University of Georgia (test gopher)/
- 125. University of Houston Protein Information Resource gopher/
- 126. University of Houston, Texas/
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 7/10
-
-
- ...and got this information:
-
- Name=University of California - Santa Cruz, InfoSlug System
- Type=1
- Port=70
- Path=
- Host=scilibx.ucsc.edu
-
- (Note that there is no path needed here, or in my .login alias.)
-
- I hope that this information proves useful. I'm fairly certain
- that much of it is available on other platforms as well.
-
- To those anxious for the Hunt answers, I will now release you
- from captivity. Hopefully before long, I will find a
- Gopher/FTP site for the Hunt, and I'll be able to place
- information of this sort in a hints or tips file there.
-
- Without further delay...
-
- THE HUNT ANSWERS
- ----------------
-
- 1. (3) What is the atomic weight of boron?
- (Question contributed by Jim Olivetti.)
-
- Winner's Answer
- ---------------
- U of C - Santa Cruz InfoSlug System
- <select> The Library/
- <select> Electronic Reference Books/
- <select> Periodic Table of Elements/
- <select> Boron
- answer: 10.811
-
- Other Answers
- -------------
- gopher at University of Minnesota
- All the Gophers in the World/
- University of Colorado, Boulder/
- Online Library Catalogues, Electronic Books and Reference Databases/
- Reference Works/
- Periodic Table of Elements/
- boron
- The atomic weight of boron is 10.811.
-
- 2. (6) Seems like a funny question to ask from so far away, but I'm
- trying to find a new book on the Internet by an author named Krol.
- Are there any local bookstores that might carry this? I live in
- Albuquerque, New Mexico.
-
- Winner's Answer
- ---------------
- <telnet> Gopher.Ora.Com
- <log in> Gopher
- <select> Ordering Information/
- <select> List of Bookstores Carrying O'Reilly Books/
- <select> New Mexico
- answer: Page One; Holman's
-
-
- 3. (4) Early last month, U.S. president-elect Bill Clinton proposed a
- new technology policy. Where can I find the text of this proposed
- policy?
-
- Winner's Answer
- ---------------
- University of California - Santa Cruz InfoSlug System
- <select> The World/
- <select> US Presidential Campaign '92 Documents/
- <select> Search Democratic Files <?> "technology"
- <select> /Democratic/Statements/tech-policy.
- answer: document is available for reading from
- screen, for mailing, for saving as a file, or
- for printing.
-
- Other Answers
- -------------
- EFFector Online November 4, 1992 Issue 3.08 A Publication of the Ele
- Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 A TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR AMERICA Six
- Broad Initiatives by Bill Clinton (September, 1992)
-
- -----
- telnet to quake.think.com (WAIS)
- select [sunsite.unc.edu] clinton-speechess (sic!)
- search for "technology policy" (found 40 items)
- select "TECHNOLOGY: Position Paper - 9/16/92" (score 1000)
-
-
- 4. (5) I'm going to be in Denver, Colorado on the nights of Jan 22-25.
- Will the Denver Nuggets basketball team be playing at home on any of
- those nights?
- (Idea for question contributed by Nancy Pope, LSU Library.)
-
- Winner's Answer
- ---------------
- University of California - Santa Cruz InfoSlug System
- <select> The Community/
- <select> Professional Sports Schedules/
- <select> National Basketball Association Schedule (92 - 93) Season <TEL>
- once connected
- <type> denver 1/22 1/23 1/24 1/25
- answer: Saturday, 1/23 Cleveland at Denver (7:00 pm)
- Monday, 1/25 Minnesota at Denver (7:00 pm)
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