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- LIBINET hypertext guide to Internet
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-
- LIBRARY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
- HYPERTEXT VERSION, V1.0
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- Ernest Perez
- eperez@utdallas.bitnet
-
- The RASD/MARS "Library Resources on the Internet: Strategies for
- Selection and Use," edited by Laine Farley, is now available in an
- MS-DOS hypertext edition. I have made a minimum of textual or content
- changes, mainly restricted to "chunking" and restructuring the
- document for hypertext format. Laine Farley reviewed the hypertext
- beta version and made suggestions and comments, incorporated into the
- released version.
-
- The RASD/MARS document has previously been electronically posted in
- ASCII text and WordPerfect formats. I am adding my hypertext version
- to those earlier "electronic editions." I hope it will be a useful
- information dissemination tool and a practical hypertext demonstration
- for librarians and end users.
-
- The runtime hypertext engine is "Hyplus," another MaxThink, Inc.
- hypertext product, similar to their memory-resident "HyperRez"
- version. HyperRez is the program which Peter Scott used for the
- popular HYTELNET guide to Internet OPAC access.
-
- Hyplus trades power features in return for losing the memory-resident
- convenience of HyperRez. It adds features like: selective printing,
- "mark and save" to ASCII text files, easy "bookmarking," fast
- string-searching within displayed text, an online glossary/KWOC index
- facility, easy display of the link trail, and a simple full-text
- search utility. With Hyplus, you can also easily call up your own
- ASCII editor to use for making your own notes, adding links, and other
- personal customizing of the hypertext system.
-
- This hypertext system is available by downloading two files by
- anonymous ftp from:
-
- hydra.uwo.ca in "libsoft" subdirectory (Univ. of Western Ontario)
- ftp.unt.edu in "library" subdirectory (Univ. of North Texas)
-
- The files are LIBINET.DOC and LIBINET.EXE. The first is an ASCII text file
- with instructions for installing and initially using the hypertext system. The
- .EXE file is a "self-extracting" ZIP or compressed file, When decompressed, it
- contains about 140 files, of approximately 480K in size.
-
-
- I have below further adapted Peter Scott's adaptation of Roy Tennant's
- concise instructions for retrieving files via anonymous ftp. The
- following describes how to obtain LIBINET version 1.0 from Gord Nickerson's
- (University of Western Ontario) ftp site (thanks Peter, thanks Roy, thanks
- Gord):
-
- TO RETRIEVE LIBINET:
- --------------------
- At your host system prompt, enter: ftp hydra.uwo.ca
- When you receive the Name prompt, enter: anonymous
- When you receive the password prompt,
- enter your Internet address: jdoe@anywhere.edu [for example]
- At the ftp> prompt, enter: cd libsoft
- Then enter: get LIBINET.DOC
- At the next ftp> prompt, enter: binary
- Then enter: get LIBINET.EXE
- After the transfer has occurred, enter: quit
-
- Then you will be back to your own host command mode.
-
- (A BIT OF EXPLANATION: the ftp program defaults to ASCII text
- transfer, for the LIBINET.DOC file. The "binary" command changes the
- transfer type to binary for the LIBINET.EXE binary file.)
-
- TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR PC:
- --------------------------
- There are many PC communications and "protocol transfer" programs, and
- I will not attempt to give step-by-step instructions here. Check your
- software instructions for for downloading *binary* and *text* files
- from your Internet account to your PC. You might want to to check
- first with your computer center staff to get time-saving pointers.
- (They get Reference Desk assignments, too.)
-
- TO UNCOMPRESS LIBINET.EXE:
- --------------------------
- Make a new directory on your hard disk (e.g., mkdir hytelnet)
- Copy LIBINET.DOC and LIBINET.EXE into the new directory.
- Make sure you are in that directory, then enter:
- libinet
- The self-extracting ZIP file will automatically decompress into the
- hypertext runtime files.
-
- Please print and read LIBINET.DOC for further installation tips and
- instructions on how to use the hypertext system.
-
-
- PROBLEM-SOLVING CAVEAT: I am neither an Internet nor ftp expert, I've
- myself basically just been a follower of clear instructions, like Roy
- Tennant's, in the past. The variety of systems and installations and
- problems/quirks is apparently endless. If you have problems with
- ftp-ing or downloading, please check with your local computer center
- staff or friendly neighborhood network power user.
-
- Cheers,
- Ernest Perez
- Access Information Associates
- eperez@utdallas.bitnet
-
- ==== <g INTERNET> 13 links in glossary topic
- ==== <g GUIDE> 9 links in glossary topic
-