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- From: A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Subject: Re: CWIS SOFTWARE
- Message-ID: <1992Oct16.223314.27872@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Oct 92 22:33:14 GMT
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- ec2mpe@SUNC.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (M England) writes:
- >I'm a postgrad student at Sheffield University looking into all aspects of CWIS
- >software for the British Universities market. Can any one give me any leads on
- >companies that provide CWIS software or on Universities that sell their CWIS
- >software. I would like to know as much information about these companies
- >(names, addresses etc.) and if possible a TELNET site address so I can look at
- >the systems.
-
- Well first of all I would not recommend you buying any software at all!
- There are plenty of free types of CWIS software around; but the best
- and most exciting has got to be Gopher. Telnet to gopher.uiuc.edu. and
- login as gopher. If you've got a Mac or Unix box on an ethernet at a
- internet (JIPS) site then you're going to have lots of fun! There are a
- few gopher servers in the UK; you'll find them if you nose around.
-
- The only University in the UK that has CWIS software that I know of is
- Bristol University; they give away the Bristol Information Software
- (bis) to any University that wants it (I think). If you look up a list
- of Janet addresses and call bristol.info (or similar) you should get
- there. It's (mistakenly in my view) been adopted for the soon to be
- announced Janet.News service. Frankly, I thought it was excellent when
- I first looked at it; but really now I think gopher beats it hands
- down. Sorry Bristol!
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