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- From: london@sunSITE.unc.edu (Larry London)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens,alt.sustainable.agriculture,bionet.plants
- Subject: Re: Is there any plant db ?
- Keywords: horticulture,gardening,farming information: WAIS, e-mail, FTP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.002405.20717@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:24:05 GMT
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- >How about a gopher server out there full of plants and stuff like that?
- >Paul, oliphant@engr.wisc.edu
- E-mail me if you want a complete list of files available at SUNSITE
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- Sustainable Agriculture Information Collection at SUNSITE.UNC.EDU
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The files listed below are available at SUNSITE.UNC.EDU. All are
- keyword searchable with WAIS. Plans are to add listserver and e-mail
- enabled file server capability. Alt.sustainable.agriculture, newly
- begun, will be available as a mailing list for those w/o newsfeeds;
- archived individual articles will be accesable via e-mail and FTP.
-
- For now files are available by:
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- FTP to sunsite.unc.edu
-
- docs are in /pub/docs/sustainable_agriculture
- [current site information and file list is /sustainable_agriculture/update]
-
- OR
-
- Send your requests for files or site information to:
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- london@sunsite.unc.edu
-
- OR
-
- To use WAIS to search text by keyword
- telnet to: sunsite.unc.edu
- login as: swais
- enter terminal emulation (VT100 works fine)
- wait 30 secs. for menu to come up
- [enter: /sustain
- hit spacebar to mark (sustainable-agriculture) source with *
- enter: w (to initiate search)
- enter keyword(s) to search for
-
-
- FAQ lists for rec.gardens and misc.rural are located in:
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- /sustainable_agriculture/recgardens
- /sustainable_agriculture/miscrural
-
- As the collection increases in size, readme files will be provided
- that will describe the contents of each directory and point to its index.
-
- Please send anything you would like to see added to the collection,
- including your revisions of any of the documents (FAQ's, lists, etc.).
-
- FTP them directly to /sustainable_agriculture/incoming
-
- or send them via e-mail to: london@sunsite.unc.edu for posting
-
-
- For more information about SUNSITE and how to use
- some of the facilities there send a mail message to
- info@sunsite.unc.edu--you'll get our welcome package
- including how-to-ftp, how-to-swais, how-to-submit...
- ======================================================
- Paul Jones
- Office FOR Information Technology
- University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Paul_Jones@unc.edu
-
- ===============
- UPDATE 11-05-92
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- [filelist deleted]
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