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<html> <Title> NetCruiser Homeport</title><P> <img src="netcruz.gif" alt="The NetCruiser Homeport logo"><P> NetCruiser provides this World Wide Web NetCruiser Home Port as a virtual airport or cruiseship pier: a place to leave from or return to on your tours around the Web. Welcome. And good cruising! <P> <HR> <a href="http://www.sjmercury.com/"> <img src="mercctr.gif" alt="">Mercury Center</a> <P> It's today's newspaper and more. Mercury Center is brought to you by the <B>San Jose Mercury News</B>, Silicon Valley's newspaper of record. Mercury Center features the full text of the Mercury News and continuous updates throughout the day. Coming soon: classified ads, archives since 1985, and more. Mercury Center is also the home of the NewsHound custom news service. <P> <HR> <P><A Name="destinations"> <H3>Tour Destinations</H3></A> <UL> <LI><A HREF="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html"> NCSA's What's New Document </A> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/gtour.html"> Guided Tours</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/sgtour.html"> Self Guided Tours</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/inttour.html"> International Destinations</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/reading.html"> At Home Reading</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/busi.html"> Business Destinations</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/educ.html"> Education Destinations</a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/ctour.html"> Selected College Tours </a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/health.html"> Health Destinations </a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/scien.html"> Scientific Destinations </a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/gov.html"> Government and Law Destinations </a> <LI><A href = "http://www.netcom.com/netcom/homepage.html"> <B>NETCOM's Home Page</B> </A> </UL> <H3> Useful Windows Programs to supplement NetCruiser </H3> <A href="http://www.netcom.com/netcom/useful.html"> Here </A> you will find a page that contains some useful utility programs. <P> <H3> Mark Stout's NetCruiser FAQs</H3> <A href="http://www.netcom.com/netcom/newuser.html"> Here </A> you will find a set of pages that provide information about features of NetCruiser provided by Mark Stout, an interested NetCruiser user.<P> <H3> Building your own map</H3><P> Use NetCruiser's Bookmark facility to store locations you'd like to come back to.<P> Web Browsers read specially constructed files written in a language called HyperText Markup Language. You can construct an HTML file and store it, like this one is stored, in one of your local directories. NetCruiser's Web Browser will read your file, and execute the links in it to take you where you want to go in the web. You can make a copy of this file, change it however you like and execute it, for example. For more information about HTML and how to construct pages of your own see: <A HREF="http://oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html"> WWW Developer's Page</A> <P> <HR> <A href="ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/sy/sybex/sybex.html"> <img src="sybxlgo2.gif" alt="The Sybex logo"></A> <P> Click on the SYBEX logo to jump to the SYBEX page. Their publication <B><I>Access the Internet</I></B> by David Peal (ISBN: 0-7821-1529-2) uses NetCruiser to explain cruising the Internet. Like the "Download new version" feature of NetCruiser, <B> <I> Access the Internet </I> </B> will "publish" updates via the Sybex Web page.<P> <HR> <H2>NetCruiser</H2> NetCruiser, the foremost Internet expedition manager, assists you in travelling the Internet by providing access to the major Internet applications. NetCruiser provides a consistent interface for you to send and receive electronic mail, post and read netnews, browse through gopherspace with gopher, follow web filaments with World Wide Web, connect to remote hosts with telnet, and check connected Login Ids with finger. With these tools you can effectively locate and retrieve information about hundreds of topics from information providers around the world. <BR> NetCruiser connects you to the nationwide NETCOM high-speed digital network, carrying your information requests to remote computers and delivering information back to your computer. Its point and click interface are designed to make your travels as easy as possible. <P> <H4>Disclaimer</H4><P> NETCOM On-Line Communications Services, Inc., provides this sample list of Internet destinations as a service to its NetCruiser user community. By providing this list, NETCOM does not imply approval of the listed destinations nor disapproval of destinations not listed. NetCruiser users are reminded that Internet sites and applications are provided as services of their respective owners. Internet destinations operate under the auspices and at the direction of their owners. Owners may find it necessary to move services to other locations or to remove them entirely.<P> <address> Netcom On-Line Communication Services glee@netcom.com</address> </html>