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- World Wide Web for Dialup Clients
- Updated by OARnet 4/94
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- WWW, or World Wide Web, is an international group of information servers
- encompassing hundreds of document, image, database, and program
- collections. Other types of Internet resources, including anonymous ftp
- (file transfer protocol) sites, gopher servers, net news, and WAIS (Wide
- Area Information Servers), are also available through WWW.
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- WWW programs, or browsers, display information in the form of hypertext
- documents. The documents appear to be like any documents displayed in a
- word-processor-like format. You can scroll through them or save them for
- later viewing. Inside hypertext documents, links are highlighted or
- underlined text. In some browsers, links can be pictures. When selected (by
- highlighting or by clicking a mouse, depending on the browser you are
- using), each link leads to more information about a topic.
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- Try out WWW on the dialup.oar.net Host
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- To try out the WWW, you may use the browser on the host dialup.oar.net.
- The name of the browser is Lynx, written by Lou Montulli at the University
- of Kansas. The command to execute the browser is www. Here is a sample
- session showing how to telnet to dialup.oar.net and enter the WWW
- application. You will have received your account's login and password when
- you signed up for OARnet Dialup Service.
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- telnet -8 -noesc dialup.oar.net
- Trying 131.187.1.130...
- Connected to dialup.oar.net.
- Escape character is '^]'.
- dialup SunOS4.1 (ttyp2)
- login: your_login
- Password: your_password
- dialup_% www
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- The lynx WWW browser allows you to move from link to link using your arrow
- keys. To select a highlighted link, press Return. Type Q to quit and the
- left arrow to view the previous document. To get a list of other commands,
- type ? and pick the list of keystroke commands. To set up a personal list
- of "bookmarks" containing links you would like to revisit at a later time,
- press o and fill in a name for your bookmark file according to the
- directions. Any time you want to save a currently highlighted link for
- future use, press a.
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- If your screen appears oddly or appears to Gbe losing characters, exit the
- browser by typing Q. Then, set your session parameters by typing:
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- stty speed rows 24 cols 80
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- For speed , substitute the highest of 2400, 9600, or 19200 that is equal to
- or less than the speed of your modem. The stty command given above is for a
- vt100, vt102, or vt320 terminal emulation. If you are not using one of
- those types, find out how many rows and columns your display has. In the
- stty command, the number of rows should follow the word rows and the number
- of columns should follow the word cols.
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- Use WWW from Your Internet Host
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- For the best interface and the ability to save files directly on your local
- computer, you may want to install a WWW browser. A few are listed below by
- platform with anonymous ftp sites where they can be retrieved. Many of
- these browsers are available on ftp.oar.net in the directory /pub/dialup.
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- PC with Windows (medium level of systems resources required):
- Cello by Tom Bruce, Cornell
- fatty.law.cornell.edu in the directory /pub/LII/cello
- PC with Windows, X Windows, Macintosh (high level of systems
- resources required):
- Mosaic, by the National Center for Supercomputing
- Applications
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the directory /Mosaic
- UNIX, VMS, AIX, HP/UX, others: Lynx by Lou Montulli, University
- of Kansas
- ftp2.cc.ukans.edu in the directory /pub/lynx
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