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- Message-ID: <9211102155.AA12213@bluemoon>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:55:56 PST
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: "(Steve Cook x4753)" <cook%bluemoon@HUB.UCSB.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Justification for CWIS
- Comments: To: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@wuvmd.wustl.edu>
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- > But I just wonder how many of the units that might be in a
- >position to supply cwis-able information--schedules of events, notices of
- >meetings, whatever--would be in a position to "gopher-ize" that
- >information themselves. Perhaps someday, but it might be that the way to
- >package a CWIS right now is as a way-station on the path to a network
- >where information is exchanged desktop-to-desktop, with little in the way
- >of "central" information services.
- > Good luck.
- >
- >--
- >FROM - Charles Forrest VOICE 404-727-0137
- > Woodruff Library FAX 404-727-0805
- > Emory University BITNET libcgf@emoryu1
- > Atlanta, GA 30322 INTERNET libcgf@unix.cc.emory.edu
-
-
- In fact, this is what a gopher server on the back end of a
- Macintosh can do today. So it is possible to publish a local
- CWIS, and connect to others everywhere with gopher.
-
- Steve Cook
- Computing Coordinator
- College of Letters and Science
- UC Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- cook@bluemoon.ucsb.edu
- 805 893-4753
-