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- From: harmo@valt.Helsinki.FI (TIMO HARMO)
- Subject: Re: Tips on ftp training
- Message-ID: <harmo.197@valt.Helsinki.FI>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences
- References: <1D17B54580809B03@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:55:26 GMT
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- >I'm looking for guides and advice on training users to use anonymous
- >FTP. I have an outline and such, and plenty of experience, so mostly
-
- We have used gopher as a first step before getting to the dirty details
- of ftp. You can use gopher first to search files of interest in ftp-servers.
- If you have access to gopher, you could set up (ask your gopher maintanence
- people to set up) links. We have to links, the first to WAIS-database
- that has indexed readme-files from several places:
-
- Name=Search ftp-readme's
- Type=7
- Port=70
- Path=waissrc:/WAISes/byletter/F/ftpable-readmes.src
- Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu
- Numb=5
-
- If you can not set up direct links, you will find the link
- in minnesota under:
- Other gopher and information servers - Wais-based information
- - byletter - F - ftpable readmes
- Or you can telnet to think.quake.com and use wais directly (or set
- up a wais client to your site and use it)
-
- The other link we set up was to a finnish ftp-site at nic.funet.fi:
-
- Name=Ftp nic.funet.fi archives
- Type=1
- Numb=6
- Port=70
- Path=ftp:nic.funet.fi@/pub/
- Host=nic.funet.fi
-
- Probably there are lots of other ftp-sites linked to gopher-space.
- (I hope, since it sounds quite foolish to direct 20 americans
- to look at a finnish ftp-site)
-
- It is much easier to use gopher to roam in the public directories
- and look for read.me-files than to use ftp for the same purpose.
- Archie is quite useless for novices IMHO, since you cannot really
- discover anything new using archie.
-