Like any large community, cyberspace has its libraries, places you can go to look up information or take out a good book. Telnet is one of your keys to these libraries.
Telnet is a program that lets you use the power of the Internet to connect you to databases, library catalogs, and other information resources around the world. Want to see what the weather's like in Vermont? Check on crop conditions in Azerbaijan? Get more information about somebody whose name you've seen online? Telnet lets you do this, and more.
Alas, there's a big ``but!'' Unlike the phone system, Internet is not yet universal; not everybody can use all of its services. Almost all colleges and universities on the Internet provide telnet access. So do the WELL, Netcom and the World. But the Free-Net systems do not give you access to every telnet system. And if you are using a public-access UUCP or Usenet site, you will not have access to telnet.
The main reason for this is cost. Connecting to the Internet can easily cost $1,000 or more for a leased, high-speed phone line.
Some databases and file libraries can be queried by e-mail, however; we'll show you how to do that later on. In the meantime, the rest of this chapter assumes you are connected to a site with at least partial Internet access.
Most telnet sites are fairly easy to use and have online help systems. Most also work best (and in some cases, only) with VT100 emulation. Let's dive right in and try one.
At your host system's command line, type
telnet access.usask.ca
and hit enter. That's all you have to do to connect to a telnet site! In this case, you'll be connecting to a service known as Hytelnet, which is a database of computerized library catalogs and other databases available through telnet. You should see something like this:
Trying 128.233.3.1 ... Connected to access.usask.ca. Escape character is '^]'.Ultrix UNIX (access.usask.ca)
login:
Every telnet site has two addresses -- one composed of words that are easier for people to remember; the other a numerical address better suited for computers. The ``escape character'' is good to remember. When all else fails, hitting your control key and the ] key at the same time will disconnect you and return you to your host system. At the login prompt, type
hytelnet
and hit enter. You'll see something like this:
Welcome to HYTELNET version 6.2 ...................What is HYTELNET?
. Up/Down arrows MOVE Library catalogs . Left/Right arrows SELECT Other resources . ? for HELP anytime Help files for catalogs . Catalog interfaces . m returns here Internet Glossary . q quits Telnet tips . Telnet/TN3270 escape keys . Key-stroke commands . ........................ HYTELNET 6.2 was written by Peter Scott, U of Saskatchewan Libraries, Saskatoon, Sask, Canada. 1992 Unix and VMS software by Earl Fogel, Computing Services, U of S 1992
The first choice, ``
Play with the system. You might want to turn on your computer's
screen-capture, or at the very least, get out a pen and paper. You're
bound to run across some interesting telnet services that you'll want to
try -- and you'll need their telnet ``addresses.''
As you move around Hytelnet, it may seem as if you haven't left
your host system -- telnet can work that quickly. Occasionally, when
network loads are heavy, however, you will notice a delay between the
time you type a command or enter a request and the time the remote
service responds.
To disconnect from Hytelnet and return to your system, hit your q
key and enter.
Some telnet computers are set up so that you can only access them
through a specific ``port.'' In those cases, you'll always see a number
after their name, for example: @host{india.colorado.edu 13}. It's important to
include that number, because otherwise, you may not get in.
In fact, try the above address. Type
and hit enter. You should see something like this:
Followed very quickly by this:
Escape character is '^]'.
Sun Apr 5 14:11:41 1992
Connection closed by foreign host.
What we want is the middle line, which tells you the exact
Mountain Standard Time, as determined by a government-run atomic clock
in Boulder, Colo.
More than 200 libraries, from the Snohomish Public Library in
Washington State to the Library of Congress and the libraries of Harvard
University, are now available to you through telnet. You can use Hytelnet
to find their names, telnet addresses and use instructions.
Why would you want to browse a library you can't physically get to?
Many libraries share books, so if yours doesn't have what you're looking
for, you can tell the librarian where he or she can get it. Or if you live
in an area where the libraries are not yet online, you can use telnet to do
some basic bibliographic research before you head down to the local branch.
There are several different database programs in use by online
libraries. Harvard's is one of the easier ones to use, so let's try it.
Telnet to @host{hollis.harvard.edu}. When you connect, you'll see:
** HOLLIS IS AVAILABLE WITHOUT ACCESS RESTRICTIONS **
Access to other applications is limited to individuals who have been
granted specific permission by an authorized person.
To select one of the applications above, type its name on the command
line followed by your user ID, and press RETURN.
** HOLLIS DOES NOT REQUIRE A USERID **
EXAMPLES: HOLLIS (press RETURN) or HUBS userid (press RETURN)
===>
Type
and hit enter. You'll see several screens flash by quickly until finally the
system stops and you'll get this:
To begin, type one of the 2-character database codes listed below:
HU Union Catalog of the Harvard libraries
OW Catalog of Older Widener materials
LG Guide to Harvard Libraries and Computing Resources
AI Expanded Academic Index (selective 1987-1988, full 1989- )
LR Legal Resource Index (1980- )
PA PAIS International (1985- )
To change databases from any place in HOLLIS, type CHOOSE followed by a
2-character database code, as in: CHOOSE HU
For general help in using HOLLIS, type HELP. For HOLLIS news, type
HELP NEWS. For HOLLIS hours of operation, type HELP HOURS.
ALWAYS PRESS THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY AFTER TYPING YOUR COMMAND
The first thing to notice is the name of the system: Hollis.
Librarians around the world seem to be inordinately found of cutesy,
anthropomorphized acronyms for their machines (not far from Harvard, the
librarians at Brandeis University came up with Library On-Line User
Information Service, or Louis; MIT has Barton).
If you want to do some general browsing, probably the best bet on the
Harvard system is to chose HU, which gets you access to their main
holdings, including those of its medical libraries. Chose that, and you'll
see this:
To begin a search, select a search option from the list below and type its
code on the command line. Use either upper or lower case.
AU Author search
TI Title search
SU Subject search
ME Medical subject search
KEYWORD Keyword search options
CALL Call number search options
OTHER Other search options
For information on the contents of the Union Catalog, type HELP.
To exit the Union Catalog, type QUIT.
A search can be entered on the COMMAND line of any screen.
ALWAYS PRESS THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY AFTER TYPING YOUR COMMAND.
Say you want to see if Harvard has shed the starchy legacy of the
Puritans, who founded the school. Why not see if they have ``The Joy of
Sex'' somewhere in their stacks? Type
and hit enter. This comes up:
ALWAYS PRESS THE ENTER OR RETURN KEY AFTER TYPING YOUR COMMAND.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
OPTIONS: FIND START - search options HELP
QUIT - exit database
COMMAND?
Oh, well! Do they have anything that mentions ``sex'' in the title? Try
another TI search, but this time just: TI sex. You get:
If you want to get more information on the first line, type 1 and hit enter:
SEX A Z
2 goldenson robert m/ 1987 bks
SEX ABUSE HYSTERIA SALEM WITCH TRIALS REVISITED
3 gardner richard a/ 1991 bks
SEX AETATES MUNDI ENGLISH AND IRISH
4 irish sex aetates mundi/ 1983 bks
SEX AFTER SIXTY A GUIDE FOR MEN AND WOMEN FOR THEIR LATER YEARS
5 butler robert n 1927/ 1976 bks
------------------------------------------------------ (CONTINUES) --------
OPTIONS: DISPLAY 1 (or D 5 etc) to see a record HELP
GUIDE MORE - next page START - search options
REDO - edit search QUIT - exit database
COMMAND?
Most library systems give you a way to log off and return to your host
system. On Hollis, hit escape followed by
One particularly interesting system is the one run by the Colorado
Alliance of Research Libraries, which maintains databases for libraries
throughout Colorado, the West and even in Boston.
Telnet @host{pac.carl.org}.
Follow the simple log-in instructions. When you get a menu, type 72
(even though that is not listed), which takes you to the Pikes Peak Library
District, which serves the city of Colorado Springs.
Several years ago, its librarians realized they could use their
database program not just for books but for cataloging city records and
community information, as well. Today, if you want to look up municipal
ordinances or city records, you only have to type in the word you're
looking for and you'll get back cites of the relevant laws or decisions.
Carl will also connect you to the University of Hawaii library, which,
like the one in Colorado Springs, has more than just bibliographic material
online. One of its features is an online Hawaiian almanac that can tell
you everything you ever wanted to know about Hawaiians, including the
number injured in boogie-board accidents each year (seven).
The service lets you search for information two different ways. A
menu system gives you quick access to reports that change frequently,
such as the weekly crop/weather reports. An index system lets you
search through several thousand online documents by keyword. At the
main menu, you can either browse through an online manual or chose
``PENPages,'' which puts you into the agriculture system.
Telnet: @host{psupen.psu.edu}
User name: PNOTPA
California State University's Advanced Technology Information
Network provides similar information as PENPages, only focusing on
California crops. It also maintains lists of upcoming California trade
shows and carries updates on biotechnology.
Telnet: @host{caticsuf.cati.csufresno.edu}
Log in: public
You will then be asked to register and will be given a user name
and password. Hit a at the main menu for agricultural information.
Hit d to call up a menu that includes a biweekly biotechnology
report.
The University of Miami maintains a database of AIDS health
providers in southern Florida.
Telnet: @host{callcat.med.miami.edu}
Log in: library
At the main menu, select P (for ``AIDS providers'' and you'll be able
to search for doctors, hospitals and other providers that care for
patients with AIDS. You can also search by speciality.
See also under Health and Conversation.
The National Ham Radio Call-Sign Callbook lets you search for
American amateur operators by callsign, city, last name or Zip code. A
successful search will give you the ham's name, address, callsign,
age, type of license and when they got it.
Telnet: @host{callsign.buffalo.edu 2000} or @host{ham.njit.edu 2000}.
When you connect, you tell the system how you want to search and
what you're looking for. For example, if you want to search for hams
by city, you would type
and hit enter (for example: city Kankakee).
Other search choices are ``call'' (after which you would type a
ham's name), ``name,'' and ``zip'' (which you would follow with a Zip
code). Be careful when searching for hams in a large city; there
doesn't seem to be anyway to shut off the list once it starts except
by using control-]. Otherwise, when done, type
and hit enter to disconnect.
The Library of Congress Information Service lets you search current
and past legislation (dating to 1982).
Telnet: @host{locis.loc.gov}
Password: none needed.
When you connect, you'll get a main menu that lets you select
from several databases, including the Library of Congress card catalog
(with book entries dating to 1978) and a database of information on
copyright laws.
For the congressional database, select the number next to its
entry and hit enter. You'll then be asked to choose which legislative year
to search. After that, a menu similar to this will come up:
CURRENCY: All information is NOT current through the above date, which is
machine generated when ANY information is added to the file.
Bill numbers, official titles, sponsors, and status (STEP) added
within 48 hours. Indexing terms and digests added later, in
some cases several weeks after the bill is added to the file.
TO START RETRIEVE to find: EXAMPLES:
SEARCH: member name --------------> retrieve rep gingrich
retrieve sen kennedy
bill number --------------> retrieve h.r. 1
subject keywords ---------> retrieve day care
FOR HELP: Type the word HELP and press the ENTER key.
READY FOR NEW COMMAND:
Communications Canada, a Canadian government agency is developing
Conversational Hypertext Access Technology (CHAT) is a system being
developed by Communications Canada to provide easy database access to
people with little or no computer experience, using what are known as
hypertext links. Instead of cryptic computer commands, users type
questions in English.
Telnet: @host{debra.doc.ca}
Log in: chat
You chose one of the three databases now online, one on AIDS, and
then ask questions in English.
Ask the AIDS database, ``When was AIDS first discovered?'' and it
answers:
``The first case of AIDS in North America was diagnosed in 1979.
Before that, it existed in Africa, probably beginning in the 1950's.
AIDS was discovered in North America when a number of young men with a
history of homosexuality developed a rare type of cancer called
Kaposi's sarcoma.''
Sometimes, you do have to rephrase your question. For example,
when asked ``What is the link between AIDS and drug use?'' the computer
responds:
``I know two things about drugs: the drugs that are used to treat
people with AIDS, and the risks that drug users have in getting AIDS.
Please ask about treatments or drug users.''
See under Congress.
Every year, the CIA publishes a Fact Book that is essentially an
almanac of all the world's countries and international organizations,
including such information as major products, type of government and
names of its leaders. It's available for searching through the
University of Maryland Info Database.
Telnet: @host{info.umd.edu}
User name: info
Chose a terminal type and hit enter (or just hit enter if you are
using VT100). At the main menu, choose the number next to ``Government''
and hit enter. One of your options will then be for ``Factbook.'' Chose
that one, and you can then search by country or agency.
Rutgers University's Campus-Wide Information Service has an online
dictionary, thesaurus and database of familiar quotations, as well as
online copies of the Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon and the
U.S. Constitution.
Telnet: @host{info.rutgers.edu}
No log-in name is needed.
At the main menu, type
and hit enter. You'll see a menu like this:
Command Purpose
------- -------
Dictionary Concise Oxford Dictionary, 8th Ed.
Thesaurus Oxford Thesaurus
Familiar Oxford Dictionary of Familiar Quotations (and Modern Q.)
World CIA World Factbook
US US government: Constitution, etc.
Religion Bible, Book of Mormon, Koran
For more information you may look under Libraries in the main menu
Previous Return to previous menu
Find Search for information
Source Age and provider of information. Where to go for more.
Quit Go back to main menu
Online reference material
Menu>
To access any of them, type its name (dictionary, for example) and hit
enter. You'll then be asked for the word to look for. If, instead,
you type
and hit enter, you'll be able to search for a word or passage from the
Bible, the Koran or the Book of Mormon.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency maintains online
databases of materials related to hazardous waste, the Clean Lakes
program and cleanup efforts in New England. The agency plans to
eventually include cleanup work in other regions, as well. The
database is actually a computerized card catalog of EPA documents --
you can look the documents up, but you'll still have to visit your
regional EPA office to see them.
Telnet: @host{epaibm.rtpnc.epa.gov}
No password or user name is needed. At the main menu, type
and hit enter (there are other listed choices, but they are only for
use by EPA employees). You'll then see a one-line menu. Type
and hit enter, and you'll see something like this:
DATABASES:
N NATIONAL CATALOG CH CHEMICAL COLL. SYSTEM
H HAZARDOUS WASTE 1 REGION I
L CLEAN LAKES
OTHER OPTIONS:
? HELP
Q QUIT
ENTER SELECTION -->
Choose one and you'll get a menu that lets you search by document
title, keyword, year of publication or corporation. After you enter
the search word and hit enter, you'll be told how many matches were
found. Hit 1 and then enter to see a list of the entries. To view
the bibliographic record for a specific entry, hit V and enter and
then type the number of the record.
The University of Michigan maintains a database of newspaper and
magazine articles related to the environment, with the emphasis on
Michigan, dating back to 1980.
Telnet: @host{hermes.merit.edu}
Host: mirlyn
Log in: meem
The University of Michigan Geographic Name Server can provide
basic information, such as population, latitude and longitude of U.S.
cities and many mountains, rivers and other geographic features.
Telnet: @host{martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000}
No password or user name is needed. Type in the name of a city, a
Zip code or a geographic feature (Mt. McKinley, for example) and hit
enter.
By typing in a town's name or zip code, you can find out a
community's county, Zip code and longitude and latitude. Not all
geographic features are yet included in the database.
See under Dictionary and Current Events.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration runs a database of health-information.
Telnet: @host{fdabbs.fda.gov}
Log in: bbs
You'll then be asked for your name and a password you want to use
in the future. After that, type
and hit enter. You'll see this:
* NEWS News releases
* ENFORCE Enforcement Report
* APPROVALS Drug and Device Product Approvals list
* CDRH Centers for Devices and Radiological Health Bulletins
* BULLETIN Text from Drug Bulletin
* AIDS Current Information on AIDS
* CONSUMER FDA Consumer magazine index and selected articles
* SUBJ-REG FDA Federal Register Summaries by Subject
* ANSWERS Summaries of FDA information
* INDEX Index of News Releases and Answers
* DATE-REG FDA Federal Register Summaries by Publication Date
* CONGRESS Text of Testimony at FDA Congressional Hearings
* SPEECH Speeches Given by FDA Commissioner and Deputy
* VETNEWS Veterinary Medicine News
* MEETINGS Upcoming FDA Meetings
* IMPORT Import Alerts
* MANUAL On-Line User's Manual
You'll be able to search these topics by key word or
chronologically. It's probably a good idea, however, to capture a copy
of the manual, first, because the way searching works on the system is a
little odd. To capture a copy, type
and hit enter. Then type
and hit enter. You'll see this:
MANUAL
BBSUSER
08-OCT-91
1 BBS User Manual
At this point, turn on your own computer's screen-capture or logging
function and hit your 1 key and then enter. The manual will begin to
scroll on your screen, pausing every 24 lines.
The Federal Information Exchange in Gaithersburg, MD, runs two
systems at the same address: FEDIX and MOLIS. FEDIX offers research,
scholarship and service information for several federal agencies,
including NASA, the Department of Energy and the Federal Aviation
Administration. Several more federal agencies provide minority hiring
and scholarship information. MOLIS provides information about minority
colleges, their programs and professors.
Telnet: @host{fedix.fie.com}
User name: fedix (for the federal hiring database) or
molis (for the minority-college system)
Both use easy menus to get you to information.
Stanford University maintains a database of documents related to
Martin Luthor King.
Telnet: @host{forsythetn.stanford.edu}
Account: socrates
At the main menu, type
and hit enter.
See under Dictionary.
See under Dictionary.
See under weather.
NASA Spacelink in Huntsville, Ala., provides all sorts of
reports and data about NASA, its history and its various missions,
past and present. You'll find detailed reports on every single probe,
satellite and mission NASA has ever launched along with daily updates
and lesson plans for teachers.
The system maintains a large file library of GIF-format space
graphics, but you can't download these through telnet. If you want
them, you have to dial the system directly, at (205) 895-0028.
Telnet: @host{spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov}
When you connect, you'll be given an overview of the system and
asked to register and chose a password.
The NED-NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database lists data on more than
100,000 galaxies, quasars and other objects outside the Milky Way.
Telnet: @host{ipac.caltech.edu}
Log in: ned
You can learn more than you ever wanted to about quasars, novae and
related objects on a system run by the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.
Telnet: @host{cfa204.harvard.edu}
Log in: einline
The physics department at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst runs a bulletin-board system that provides extensive conferences
and document libraries related to space.
Telnet: @host{spacemet.phast.umass.edu}
Log on with your name and a password.
The University of Maryland Info Database maintains U.S. Supreme
Court decisions from 1991 on in its Government area.
Telnet: @host{info.umd.edu}
User name: info
and hit enter. Chose a terminal type and hit enter (or just hit enter
if you are using VT100). At the main menu, choose the number next to
``Government'' and hit enter. One of your options will then be for
``US.'' Select that number and then, at the next menu, choose the one
next to ``Supreme Court.''
Hytelnet, at the University of Saskatchewan, is an online guide to
hundreds of telnet sites around the world.
Telnet: @host{access.usask.ca}
Log in: hytelnet.
See under Dictionary.
To find out the exact time:
Telnet: @host{india.colorado.edu 13}
You'll see something like this:
The middle line tells you the date and exact Mountain Standard
Time, as determined by a federal atomic clock.
If you want a more philosophical approach to your time, the U.S.
Naval Observatory's Automated Data Service has copies of detailed
papers on such things as ``the nature of time.'' It also carries
information on how to buy a clock, along with arcana on such things as
``leap seconds.''
Telnet: @host{tycho.usno.navy.mil}
Log on: ads
After you log in and register, you'll get the following menu:
Type
and hit enter for many of the text files.
The University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanographic
and Space Sciences supplies weather forecasts for U.S. and foreign cities,
along with skiing and hurricane reports.
Telnet: @host{madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000} (note the 3000).
No log-in name is needed.
Also see under Weather in the FTP list for information on downloading
satellite and radar weather images.
You might think that Usenet, with its hundreds of newsgroups,
would be enough to satisfy the most dedicated of online communicators.
But there are a number of ``bulletin-board'' and other systems that
provide even more conferences or other services, many not found
directly on the Net. Some are free; others charge for access. They
include:
To be able to write messages and gain access to files, you have
to leave a note to SYSOP with your name, address, occupation and phone
number. To do this, at any prompt, hit your M key and then enter,
which will bring up the mail system. Hitting H brings up a list of
commands and how to use them.
Telnet: @host{bugs.mty.itesm.mx} (8 p.m. to 10 a.m., Eastern time, only).
At the ``login:'' prompt, type
and hit enter.
1 The Administration Building
2 The Post Office
3 Public Square
4 The Courthouse & Government Center
5 The Arts Building
6 Science and Technology Center
7 The Medical Arts Building
8 The Schoolhouse (Academy One)
9 The Community Center & Recreation Area
10 The Business and Industrial Park
11 The Library
12 University Circle
13 The Teleport
14 The Communications Center
15 NPTN/USA TODAY HEADLINE NEWS
------------------------------------------------
h=Help, x=Exit Free-Net, "go help"=extended help
Your Choice ==>
The system has a vast and growing collection of public documents,
from copies of U.S. and Ohio Supreme Court decisions to the Magna
Carta and the U.S. Constitution. It links residents to various
government agencies and has daily stories from USA Today. Beyond
Usenet (found in the Teleport area), it has a large collection of
local conferences on everything from pets to politics. And yes, it's
free!
Telnet: @host{freenet-in-a.cwru.edu} or
@host{freenet-in-b.cwru.edu}
When you connect to Free-Net, you can look around the system.
However, if you want to be able to post messages in its conferences or
use e-mail, you will have to apply in writing for an account.
Information on this is available when you connect.
and hit enter.
For its conferences, the WELL uses PicoSpan software, which
presents messages differently than rn or nn. When you enter a
conference, you can call up a list of ``topics.'' Enter a topic number,
and all of the messages start scrolling down the screen, sort of like
the music on an old-fashioned player-piano. There is some online
help, but new users are sent a written manual.
See section Electronic Mail
for information on access charges (one advantage to connecting to the WELL
through telnet is that unless you live in the Bay Area, it is likely
to be much cheaper than other access methods).
Telnet: @host{well.sf.ca.us}
See section ``A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community'' by Howard Rheingold if you're interested in a closer look.
and hit enter.
This is a handy little program which lets you tell others more
about you -- and which you can sometimes use to find out more about
people whose names you see on the Net.
It uses the same concept as telnet or ftp. But it works with only
one file, called .plan (yes, with a period in front). This is a text
file you create with a text editor in your home directory. You can
put your phone number in there, or your address, or anything at all.
To finger somebody else's .plan file, type this at the command
line:
where email-address is the person's e-mail address. You'll get back a
display that shows the last time the person was online, whether
they've gotten any new mail since that time and what, if anything, is
in their .plan file.
Some people and institutions have come up with creative uses for
these .plan files, letting you do everything from checking the weather
in Massachusetts to getting the latest baseball standings. Try
fingering these e-mail addresses:
So you have a friend and you want to find out if he has an Internet
account to which you can write? The quickest way may be to just pick up
the phone, call him and ask him. Although there are a variety of ``white
pages'' services available on the Internet, they are far from complete --
college students, users of commercial services such as CompuServe and
many Internet public-access sites, and many others simply won't be
listed. Major e-mail providers are working on a universal directory
system, but that could be some time away.
In the meantime, a couple of ``white pages'' services might give you
some leads, or even just entertain you as you look up famous people or
long-lost acquaintances.
The whois directory provides names, e-mail and postal mail address
and often phone numbers for people listed in it. To use it, telnet to
@host{internic.net}.
No log-on is needed. The quickest way to use it is to type
Another service worth trying is the ``knowbot'' system reachable by
telnet to @host{nri.reston.va.us 185}.
Again, no log-on is needed. This service actually searches through a
variety of other ``white pages'' systems, including the user directory for
MCIMail. To look for somebody, type
name is the last name of the person you're looking for. You can
get details of other commands by hitting a question mark at the prompt.
The Usenet newsgroups @news{alt.internet.services} and
@news{alt.bbs.internet}
can provide pointers to new telnet systems. Scott Yanoff periodically
posts his @fyi{Updated Internet Services List} in the former;
Thomas Kreeger
periodically posts @fyi{Zamfield's Wonderfully Incomplete, Complete Internet
BBS List} in the latter newsgroup. The @news{alt.bbs.internet} newsgroup is
also where you'll find Aydin Edguer's compendium of
Internet-BBS-related FAQs.
Peter Scott, who maintains the Hytelnet database, runs a
mailing list about new telnet services and changes in existing ones.
To get on the list, send him a note at @email{scott@sklib.usask.ca}.
telnet india.colorado.edu 13
Trying 128.138.140.44 ...
telnet india.colorado.edu 13
Library Catalogs
***************** H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y
***************** OFFICE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
*** *** ***
*** VE *** RI ***
*** *** *** HOLLIS (Harvard OnLine LIbrary System)
***** *****
**** TAS **** HUBS (Harvard University Basic Services)
*** ***
***** IU (Information Utility)
***
CMS (VM/CMS Timesharing Service)
hollis
WELCOME TO HOLLIS
(Harvard OnLine Library Information System)
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNION CATALOG
TI Joy of Sex
HU: YOUR SEARCH RETRIEVED NO ITEMS. Enter new command or HELP. You typed:
TI JOY OF SEX
***************************************************************************
HU GUIDE: SUMMARY OF SEARCH RESULTS 2086 items retrieved by your search:
FIND TI SEX
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1 SEX
2 SEX A
823 SEXA
827 SEXBO
831 SEXCE
833 SEXDR
834 SEXE
879 SEXIE
928 SEXJA
929 SEXLE
930 SEXO
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Telnet Sites
Agriculture
PENPages, run by Pennsylvania State University's College of
Agricultural Sciences, provides weekly world weather and crop reports
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These reports detail
everything from the effect of the weather on palm trees in Malaysia to
the state of the Ukrainian wheat crop. Reports from Pennsylvania
country extension officers offer tips for improving farm life. One
database lists Pennsylvania hay distributors by county -- and rates
the quality of their hay!
AIDS
Amateur Radio
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Animals
See under Health.
Art
The National Gallery of Art in Washington maintains a database of
its holdings, which you can search by artist (Van Gogh, for example) or
medium (watercolor, say). You can see when specific paintings were
completed, what medium they are in, how large they are and who donated
it to the gallery.
Telnet: @host{ursus.maine.edu}
Login: ursus
At the main menu, hit your b key and then 4 to connect to the
gallery database.
Calculators
Hewlett-Packard maintains a free service on which you can seek
advice about their line of calculators.
Telnet: @host{hpcvbbs.cv.hp.com}
No log-in is needed.
Congress
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which was updated on 05/10/93 and contains 4,044 records,
is now available for your search.
Conversation
Copyright Law
Current Events
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reference
Online reference material
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religion
Environment
public
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topics
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Telnet
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Time
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Telnet BBSs
Cimarron
Run by the Instituto Technical in Monterey, Mexico,
this system has Spanish conferences, but English commands, as you can
see from this menu of available conferences:
List of Boards
Name Title
General Board general
Dudas Dudas de Cimarron
Comentarios Comentarios al SYSOP
Musica Para los afinados........
Libros El sano arte de leer.....
Sistemas Sistemas Operativos en General.
Virus Su peor enemigo......
Cultural Espacio Cultural de Cimarron
NeXT El Mundo de NeXT
Ciencias Solo apto para Nerds.
Inspiracion Para los Romanticos e Inspirados.
Deportes Discusiones Deportivas
bbs
Cleveland Free-Net
The first of a series of Freenets, this
represents an ambitious attempt to bring the Net to the public.
Originally an in-hospital help network, it is now sponsored by Case
Western Reserve University, the city of Cleveland, the state of Ohio
and IBM. It uses simple menus, similar to those found on CompuServe,
but organized like a city:
<<< CLEVELAND FREE-NET DIRECTORY >>>
Dialog
This commercial service offers access to a large variety
of databases -- for a fairly sizable fee. You need a Dialog account to
use the system through the Net.
Telnet: @host{dialog.com}
DUBBS
This is a bulletin-board system in Delft in the
Netherlands. The conferences and files are mostly in Dutch, but the
help files and the system commands themselves are in English.
Telnet: @host{tudrwa.tudelft.nl}
ISCA BBS
Run by the Iowa Student Computer Association, it has
more than 100 conferences, including several in foreign languages.
After you register, hit K for a list of available conferences and then
J to join a particular conference (you have to type in the name of the
conference, not the number next to it). Hitting H brings up
information about commands.
Telnet @host{bbs.isca.uiowa.edu}
At the ``login:'' prompt, type
bbs
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
Itself a major Net access
point in the San Francisco area, the WELL is also a unique online
community that maintains dozens of conferences on every imaginable
topic (seven devoted just to the Grateful Dead). WELL users are
intelligent and opinionated; discussions are often fast and furious.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was basically started in a series
of online conversations on the WELL. Although it has a serious San
Francisco flavor, it has users from across the country (enough to
support both East Coast and Midwest conferences).
Youngstown Free-Net
The people who created Cleveland Free-Net
sell their software for $1 to anybody willing to set up a similar
system. A number of cities now have their own Free-Nets, including
Youngstown, Ohio. Telnet: @host{yfn.ysu.edu} At the ``login:'' prompt, type
visitor
Finger
finger email-address
When things go wrong:
Finding Someone on the Net
whois name
at the prompt, where "name" is the last name or organization name you're
looking for.
query name
FYI: