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- From: JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: LIBRARIES
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- Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:30:46 GMT
- Organization: Honest Ernie's Used Ions
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- > online, ASCII-format collections available for browsing/ftp/etc. over the Internet?
-
- The University of California's MELVYL online catalog can be accessed
- remotely. I am somewhat embarassed to admit that I don't know how
- to access it at Cal except through a hardwired terminal in our library,
- but on the net I sometimes do TELNET UWIN.U.WASHINGTON.EDU
- to get at it through University of Washington Information. (Washington
- also seems to have a database of its own on UWIN -- I use MELVYL
- because often I can just go down to campus and pick up the book I
- identified.)
-
- I don't know the official terms and conditions of using either service, but
- someone local to Washington announced the availability of UWIN over on
- alt.usage.english and I haven't seen any subsequent indications that it's
- uncool for outsiders to use it or MELVYL. *Be a sport and do this during
- off-peak hours,* obviously.
-
- Happy netting,
- Joe
- "The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" -- Robert
- Service
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