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- From: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter)
- Originator: joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg Heitkoetter)
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,de.newusers.questions,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.infosystems.www,alt.folklore.computers,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,alt.internet.services
- Subject: FAQ: Big Dummy's Guide 2.2, Life, and Everything...
- Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk
- Date:
- Summary: This posting tells you everything you ought to know about an exciting
- project that helps so-called Newbies to survive their first year on The Net.
- It gets you softly into most of the often severe details of mindboggling
- complexity that popup when you're hooked into The Net. It is also intended
- to help you get around the trap doors, avoid pitfalls and other non-funny
- things (e.g. local gurus that laugh at you), you'll encounter during life
- as a Netizen in Cyberspace. It is styled after a FAQ list, ie. "Frequently
- Asked Questions and their respective Answers".
- Keywords: Internet, Big Dummy's Guide, Newbies, Introduction, Babelfish, Help
-
- The-FAQ-Version: 10
- Day-of-Last-Changes: February 26, 1994
- Period-of-posting: quarterly
-
-
- parody /'paeredi/ n. & v. -- n. (pl. -ies)
- 1 a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author,
- literary work, style, etc. 2 a feeble imitation;
- a travesty. -- v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 compose a
- parody of. 2 mimic humorously.
- --- The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary
-
- Ahoy!
-
- This is a reminder to get your hands on a copy of the EFF's
- "BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET." (Version 2.2)
- It's your free ticket to a round trip through Global Networks, Life in
- Cyberspace, and Everything...
-
- So, SYSTEM ADMINSTRATORS everywhere: Get this for your LOCAL DUMMYS!
- Throw printouts into your terminal pools, install it online, do whatever you
- want, only *selling* it is NOT ALLOWED! This electronic version comes
- for FREE!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * I READ THIS BEFORE, WHAT'S NEW?
-
- The changes, updates and re-arrangements are too numerous to list;
- all bug fixes I received have been incorporated, including the changes
- Adam Gaffin made to his original ASCII version 2.2 (cf VERSIONS below).
-
- For a test drive, point your favorite Worl Wide Web client to URL:
- "http://www.germany.eu.net/books/bdgtti/bdgtti.html".
-
- DUMMY's has undergone a lot updates recently, and we want to settle down
- the pace of new releases a bit; therefore, Adam decided to edit a monthly
-
- *Big Dummy Update*
-
- that will serve as a collection of new resources (and thus new parts/ideas,
- that then will get into DUMMY's twice a year). The newsletter will be
- posted to USENET newsgroups comp.org.eff.talk, alt.internet.services, and
- maybe others, contact Adam Gaffin <adamg@world.std.com> for issues related to
- this project. From the first version of *Big Dummy Update*, March 1994:
-
- CONTACT INFO
-
- The Big Dummy Update is published monthly by the Electronic Frontier
- Foundation. To obtain a copy of the original Big Dummy's Guide to the
- Internet, or back copies of the update, you can use either anonymous ftp
- or gopher. For the former, connect to ftp.eff.org and use cd to switch
- to the pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/Updates/ directory. For the latter, connect to
- gopher.eff.org. Select "Net Info", then "Big Dummy", then "Big Dummy
- UPDATES". Updates are available via the World Wide Web from:
- http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/Updates/
-
-
- A new "Welcome" by Mitch Kapor has been added in release 2.2, and
- the "glitches" in chapters 1/9/10, introduced in release 2.0 have been
- fixed. Texinfo edition 2.1 doesn't exist, so, you didn't miss anything.
-
- "Paperware freaks", should note that MIT Press will publish Adam's
- "core manual" (Chapters 1-13) as a "real book", probably in June '94.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WILL DUMMY'S GET INTO THE *PROJECT GUTENBERG* ARCHIVES?
-
- Since Fri, 14 Jan 1994 12:00:35 -0500 (EST), we know that Michael S. Hart,
- Professor of Electronic Text, Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext,
- Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532, is adding DUMMY'S to the
- Gutenberg e-text archives!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * SO, WHATZ THE PROBLEM? (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
-
- There are of course many problems connected with young ape-descended life
- forms, of which some of the most popular are `What is life all about?'
- `Will I ever be able really to understand young ape-descended life forms
- of the oppopsite sex?' And `What is the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet?'
-
- The Encyclopedia Galactica defines the "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet"
- as a mostly interesting attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people.
- The marketing division of Sirius Cybernectics Corporation defines the "Big
- Dummy's Guide to the Internet" as `Your Electronic Online Pal Who's Fun To
- Be With.' The Texinfo editor of "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet" (aka
- "bdgtti.texi") defines it as `The Best Stuff I've Been Involved In Since
- Breakfast.'
-
- Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the
- good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future
- defined the "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet" as a mostly interesting but
- useless attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people...?
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHO WROTE IT?
-
- This Guide, originally written by Adam Gaffin, then a senior news reporter,
- of Middlesex News, Boston, MA, comes in an easily understood language, and
- provides almost all information you'll ever need to survive, when you got
- stranded in this mindboggling universe called Internet, ie. the Net of all
- Nets on this crazy planet. So take this writing as kind of electronic
- Babelfish, that helps you to understand what the hell everybody out there
- is talking about.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WILL I BE ABLE TO READ IT?
-
- DUMMY's is available (in one format at least) for all currently running
- computer architectures, from Amiga to CRAY, although some IBM EBCDIC main-
- frames might have problems with the ASCII versions. But usually you won't
- work with these anyway. (And thus won't have to worry what EBCDIC is all
- about...) It comes in printable (TeX DVI, PostScript, ASCII) and
- electronically readable formats (World-Wide Web/HTML, GNU Info). You will
- definitely be able to read one version at least!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHAT ABOUT AN OVERVIEW OF THIS FAQ LIST?
-
- Enclosed in this posting you'll find 5 files from the Texinfo version
- (cf below) of DUMMY's:
-
- (1) WELCOME, the original, official welcome message by the Electronic
- Frontier Foundation's Shari Steele; the foundation that hired
- Adam Gaffin for this writing job.
-
- (2) README, a file that answers most of your questions
- concerning the Texinfo project of DUMMY's.
-
- (3) SERVERS, a file that lists all Internet resources/locations
- DUMMY's is accessible from; either as simple file(s), or as
- online readable HyperText multimedia book!
-
- (4) VERSIONS, a file, ie. a table, that lists all the currently
- available versions of DUMMY's (cf README for the differences).
-
- (5) CREDITS, a list of all the people (consciously and unconsciously)
- involved in this project. If I should have forgotten you, please
- I'd regret it. Please, drop me your address once again.
-
- (6) COPYLITE, terms and conditions under which the sources of DUMMY's
- are distributed.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHERE DO I FIND DUMMY's?
-
- DUMMY's actually *is* wide-spread, globally speaking; distribution site
- locations range from KOREA to JAPAN to AUSTRALIA to USA to CANADA to the
- UNITED KINGDOM to GERMANY to SWITZERLAND to AUSTRIA to BETELGEUZE to SOUTH
- AFRICA to RUSSIA. Only LATIN AMERICA is missing at present. So what about
- the Southern hemisphere, folks? Where are you, Netizens? (The complete list
- is appended below.)
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE?
-
- If you find any mistakes/typos/inaccuracies/whatever in this posting
- drop me a mail; if you have newer informatio than the ones listed
- below drop me a mail; if you have questions, please folks, *READ THE GUIDE
- FIRST*, it's all in there.
-
- Given you're a system/ftp/WWW administrator: Please consider installation of
- DUMMY's on your site; and please let me know. The more sites carry DUMMY's,
- the sooner these postings will go away... ;-)
-
- Anyway, enjoy the trip! -joke
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- Foreword
- By Mitchell Kapor,
- Co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
-
- Welcome to the World of the Internet
-
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proud to have sponsored
- the production of the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet. EFF is a
- nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to ensuring
- that everyone has access to the newly emerging communications technologies
- vital to active participation in the events of our world. As more and more
- information is available online, new doors open up for those who have
- access to that information. Unfortunately, unless access is broadly
- encouraged, individuals can be disenfranchised and doors can close, as
- well. The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet was written to help open some
- doors to the vast amounts of information available on the world's largest
- network, the Internet.
- The spark for the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet was ignited in
- a few informal conversations that included myself and Steve Cisler of Apple
- Computer, Inc., in June of 1991. With the support of Apple Computer, EFF
- engaged Adam Gaffin to write the book and actually took on the project in
- September of 1991.
- The idea was to write a guide to the Internet for people who had
- little or no experience with network communications. We intended to post
- this guide to the Net in ASCII and HyperCard formats and to give it away on
- disk, as well as have a print edition available. We have more than
- realized our goal. Individuals from as geographically far away as Germany,
- Italy, Canada, South Africa, Japan, Scotland, Norway, and Antarctica have
- all sent electronic mail to say that they downloaded the Big Dummy's Guide
- to the Internet. The guide is now available in a wide array of formats,
- including ACSCII text, HyperCard, World Wide Web, PostScript and
- AmigaGuide. And the guide will be published in a printed format by MIT
- Press in June of 1994.
- EFF would like to thank author Adam Gaffin for doing a terrific job
- of explaining the Net in such a nonthreatening way. We'd also like to
- thank the folks at Apple, especially Steve Cisler of the Apple Library, for
- their support of our efforts to bring this guide to you.
- We invite you to join with EFF in our fight to ensure that equal
- access to the networks and free speech are protected in newly emerging
- technologies. We are a membership organization, and through donations like
- yours, we can continue to sponsor important projects to make communications
- easier. Information about the Electronic Frontier Foundation and some of
- the work that we do can be found at the end of this book.
- We hope that the Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet helps you learn
- about whole new worlds, where new friends and experiences are sure to be
- yours. Enjoy!
-
- Mitch Kapor
- Chairman of the Board
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- mkapor@eff.org
-
- For comments, questions, or requests regarding EFF or the Big Dummy's Guide
- to the Internet, send a note to ask@eff.org.
-
- --- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: README,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:24 joke Rel $
-
-
- SPREAD THE WORD:
-
- "The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet is now available,
- in a variety of easily convertible formats *and*
- at your local laser printer."
-
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHAT IS BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE?
-
- This is still the first Texinfo edition of a book entitled "Big
- Dummy's Guide to the Internet" (aka "bdgtti.texi") written by
- Adam Gaffin for a joint project of Apple Computer, Inc. and
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHERE DO I GET THE HYPERCARD STACK?
-
- Steve Cisler courtesy of the Apple Library, used a Macintosh
- computer and converted Adams writing into a so-called HyperCard
- stack; this stack, readable by the HyperCard software that comes
- bundled with every Mac, is available via anonymous FTP from the EFF's
- server "ftp.eff.org" as file "big-dummys-guide.sea.hqx" see under
- "pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions". However, this version is
- completely out of date; if you're a passionte Apple/HyperCard hacker
- and want to volunteer in creating an up-to-date version, please
- send e-mail to ask@eff.org.
-
- The latter also includes man more versions, e.g. AmigaGuide, MS-Windows
- Help, and GeoWorks Write formats are also available, the latter by
- Adam himself (cf. VERSIONS).
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * AND THE ORIGINAL ASCII? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
-
- Also available in the same directory is Adam's original ASCII
- version "big-dummys-guide.txt" (currently at version 2.2) that served as the
- starting point for this Texinfo based release.
-
- Besides several "bug fixes," witty quotes, corrections, including
- some complete rewrites (cf Chapter 8) and the new layout, some more
- value has been added; notably, two personal articles from EFFector
- Online, the EFF's bi-weekly news magazine (available in comp.org.eff.news
- on USENET), now serving as superb afterwords, and some other
- contribution of Netizens I found quite worthwhile reading over
- the past years:
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * NOW, WHAT'S IN THERE?
-
- * "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
- describes the social life on the Internet from the WELL's point
- of view.
-
- * "A Statement of Principle" by SF author Bruce Sterling
- discusses some moral and legal issues you will definitely get to
- know when becoming a "cybernaut" on Internet.
-
- * "Subject: TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
- shows , that even the non-virtual world (aka "reality") finally got
- interested in cyberspace, and the cybernauts on Internet.
-
- * "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Grag Chartrand *parodies*
- the NSF's proposed US National Education and Research Network.
-
- Moreover a bibliography has been stuffed into this edition:
-
- * A comprehensive list of Paperware related to the Internet
- (This is an updated version of the bibliography section that
- comes with the first edition of "Zen and the Art of the
- Internet" by Brendan Kehoe, plus part of the reference section of
- Henry Edward Hardy's Master's Thesis "The History of the Net"
- written at the School of Communications, Grand Valley State
- University, Allendale, MI 49401. Version 7.2 was posted to
- comp.org.eff.talk on August 28, 1993.)
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- This guide is same 250 European A4 size pages in length, (i.e. same 300
- US-letter size pages) and is divided into the following sections:
-
- * A 5 part Introduction
- - G'day by the Texinfo editor
- - Welcome by Mitchell Kapor, EFF
- - Foreword by Mitchell Kapor, EFF
- - Addendum to Foreword by Mitchell Kapor and Jerry Berman, EFF
- - Preface by Adam Gaffin, Middlesex News, Boston, MA, USA.
-
- * A 13 part Walk-trough-the-Internet
- Chapter 1 -- Setting up, Getting connected, Jacking in...
- Chapter 2 -- Electronic Mail
- Chapter 3 -- Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
- Chapter 4 -- Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles
- Chapter 5 -- Mailing Lists and Bitnet
- Chapter 6 -- Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
- Chapter 7 -- FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
- Chapter 8 -- Gophers, WAISs, and the World-Wide Web
- Chapter 9 -- Advanced E-mail
- Chapter 10 -- News of the World
- Chapter 11 -- IRC, MUDs, and other things...
- Chapter 12 -- Education on the Net
- Chapter 13 -- Business on the Net
-
- * A 5 part Afterword
- - "Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin
- - "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
- - "A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling
- - "Subject: TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
- - "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand
-
- * A Bibliography
- - Paperware on the Internet: A comprehensive list of over
- 200 (sic!) literary references of books, papers, magazines,
- newspaper bits, and electronically published texts, all of them
- related to the Internet and similar topics.
-
- * 5 Appendices
- - Appendix on Internet Jargon
- - Appendix by Ms. Emily Postnews
- - Appendix on The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- - Appendix on Internet Country Codes (ISO 3166)
- - Appendix on Smileys: ``The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary''
-
- * 4 Indices
- - E-mail addresses mentioned
- - Internet Sites mentioned
- - Commands, Suffixes, and Tools mentioned
- - General Index
-
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHY DO YOU WANT THIS?
-
- Why do you want this? Well, for one thing, it's better than Bloomfield's
- "99 more things to do in zero gravity", and then it's free. So what
- else do you expect? Ok, for an encore: it definitely saves you some time
- and trouble: traditionally users learned by word of mouth, stumbling
- upon things, being trapped by dozens of pitfalls, and laughed at by
- systems wizards. These times are OVER!
-
- This guide should serve as a first straw to clutch at when you're stranded
- in this mindboggling universe called Internet; and are curious about what
- else can be done. It also presents the fundamental topics on a "rookie"
- level that are all too often assumed and considered trivial by many more
- experienced network users/admins/gurus.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHERE DO YOU GET IT?
-
- It should be available from the EFF's FTP server "ftp.eff.org" in the
- "pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy" directory.
-
- Just check out the European edition on "ftp.germany.eu.net" in
- "pub/books/big-dummys-guide". See below for instructions on "How to configure
- DUMMY's". AND read the SERVERS file that comes with the Texinfo distribution
- for more servers than you probably need...
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * DISTRIBUTION DIRECTORY:
-
- |-README // FAQ file
- |-README.VMS // help for VMS folks
- |-big-dummys-guide-texi-|-bdgtti-2.2.ps.gz // PostScript
- |-bdgtti-2.2.dvi.gz // TeX DVI file
- |-bdgtti-2.2-US.dvi.gz // TeX DVI US paper
- |-bdgtti-2.2-US.ps.gz // TeX PS US paper
- |-bdgtti-2.2.info.gz // GNU Info file
- |-bdgtti-2.2.txt.gz // TEXT file
- |-bdgtti-2.2.html.tar.gz // HTML (WWW) files
- |-bdgtti-2.2.amiga.lha // AmigaGuide files
- |-bdgtti-2.2.tar.gz // all Texinfo sources
-
- Both sites can uncompress the files "on the fly", i.e., you do not need to
- have the GNU gunzip utility. Just get the files with the ".gz" extension:
-
- get bdgtti-2.2.ps
-
- instead of:
-
- get bdgtti-2.2.ps.gz
-
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHAT ARE ALL THESE FILES?
-
- Now, how to read it. The file bdgtti-2.2.dvi is a DVI (DeVice
- Independent) file created by the TeX typesetting system. Filters
- exist to convert these DVI files into printer-specific files for
- a variety of printers. Also included is the file bdgtti-2.2.ps,
- a PostScript version. bdgtti-2.2.txt is the plain ASCII version
- of bdgtti-2.2.info, ie. the latter can be browsed either using
- EMACS in INFO mode, or any GNU info browser, e.g. "info", or
- "xinfo". Just type "info -f bdgtti-2.2.info" and there you go.
-
- For the folks who want to print the PS version on a Hewlett-Packard
- laser printer with Postscript option, take care. You cannot print
- the file double-sided, which results in "0.5in upwards shifted" even pages;
- but printing it single-paged is ok. This is obvioulsy due to a bug in the
- HP-printer's firmware, and was reported by Ed Moore of HP, using a
- LaserJet 4Si (with PostScript option, of course).
-
- Dawn Cooley reported troubles with a Texas Instruments microLaser Turbo.
- After downloading Adobe's error handler, DUMMY's printed fine.
-
- The tar file with suffix ".html" contains DUMMY's in some 300 files in
- HyperText Markup Language format. They can be thrown into your
- system's World-Wide Web directory, and then browsed using the
- various WWW tools. E.g. from within xmosaic "Load Local" bdgtti-2.2_toc.html,
- and there you go! An alternative is to set the default home page environment
- variable with: "setenv WWW_HOME bdgtti-2.2_toc.html" which makes DUMMY's the
- HOME page (press the HOME button to get back to the top) on startup.
-
- (Well, at least when xmosaic is installed on your system. If it's
- not, BUG YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR! He obviously missed the
- leading edge of today's infosystems technologies.)
-
- In the tar file bdgtti-2.2.tar.gz (a gzip'ed tar file---ask
- YOUR LOCAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR and/or Unix guru how to extract
- the files from this), there are a number of files suffixed by
- ".texi". These are all the Texinfo sources to this guide.
- Note again that on the eff.org site, this file will have a .z extension,
- not a .gz extension, though it is the same sort of archive. This is due
- to a lousy script, and should be fixed Real Soon Now.
-
- New in the collection is bdgtti-2.2.amiga.lha, an archive containing
- the AmigaGuide (cf VERSIONS below) version of the book.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * FYI: WHAT IS TeX?
-
- FYI: TeX is a free typesetting system by Don Knuth of Stanford;
- the source of which you can FTP or buy on a tape. Texinfo is a
- package of macros written on top of TeX by the GNU Project for
- easy manual creation. See the FTP Chapter in DUMMY's on how to
- obtain TeX.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * HOW TO CREATE A DVI FILE?
-
- Well, first you must configure DUMMY's to produce an US letter
- size, or a European A4 paper size version: this can easily be done
- with the provided "configure" shell script (C-shell), eg.:
-
- example % configure --letter
- Or:
- example % configure --a4
-
- Note, that "example %" represents your system's input prompt, that might look
- different for you, eg. on MS-DOS you're used to see something like "C:\DUMMY>".
- You might also configure DUMMY's "by hand", e.g. for the letter size version:
-
- example % cp config/Makefile.us Makefile
- example % cp config/bdgtti.us bdgtti.texi
-
- And for the A4 version:
-
- example % cp config/Makefile.a4 Makefile
- example % cp config/bdgtti.a4 bdgtti.texi
-
- To create a DVI file of your own (e.g. to produce an A4 paper version),
- simply run "texi2dvi" on bdgtti.texi twice; or use the Makefile included;
- it does almost *everything* for you (...although "make coffee" doesn't work,
- yet). All there is to do is to type:
-
- example % make dvi
-
- It's really that easy! (If you have the appropriate tools installed, and
- a *real* operating system running on your box...)
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * WHAT ABOUT A HYPERTEXT INFO FILE?
-
- Well, some moons have passed since edition 1.00, and now it's there!
- But you need to patch "makeinfo v1.55" with the included "makeinfo-1.55.
- patch" file, and compile it with "-DJOKES=1" defined. Then type "make info"
- for the Info, and "make txt" for a TEXT/ASCII version.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * HOW TO CREATE THE HTML FILES?
-
- Just say "make html" which runs "texi2html" on "bdgtti.texi" and
- creates a bunch of HTML files; Note that "texi2html" needs Larry Wall's
- "perl" program to be installed on your system. Maybe you need to edit the
- first line in the perl script "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" to whatever
- directory "perl" is installed on your system.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * HOW TO HANDLE TYPOS, MISTAKES, AND OTHER BUGS?
-
- Given, that this is still the first edition, some "bugs" or other
- "quirks" are inevitable, that might have been overseen during Texinfo
- production. If you find something, drop me an e-mail; if you have any
- comments or questions, want to make further addition or corrections,
- please send "all-your-stuff" to the address below. I'll probably include
- them into future releases of this guide.
-
- But, please, folks, don't expect an answer on your question until the
- weekend following your quest. And thus you might drop me the question
- on Fridays. I am currently writing my thesis on something completely
- different than the Internet, WWW, Information Retrieval, or something alike,
- and thus like to limit the e-mail traffic on this project to the weekends.
-
- Thanx in advance for your patience!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE CURRENT TEXINFO EDITOR/COORDINATOR?
-
- Joerg Heitkoetter
- <joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
-
- c/o Systems Analysis Research Group, LSXI
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Dortmund
- D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- --- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: SERVERS,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:26 joke Rel $
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- "A map of the world without Utopia is not worth glancing at."
- -- Oscar Wilde
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- This file lists the currently (January 1994) available electronic
- archive sites/services, that either distribute the "Big Dummy's Guide to
- the Internet", or let you browse through it using the latest of infosystems
- technologies...
-
- Please note that the Texinfo based version (below addressed as "DUMMY's")
- is different from the original HyperCard and ASCII files, (cf the README
- for more info on this issue).
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE WHOLE STORY COMPRESSED
-
- DUMMY's comes in a variety of formats: PostScript (.ps), TeX DVI (.dvi),
- GNU Info (.info), plain text (.txt), HyperText Markup Language (.html),
- AmigaGuide (.amiga) and the complete source distribution (including some
- patch files, you'll need to use Makeinfo-1.55, and texi2html-1.21) bundled
- in a Tarfile (.tar).
-
- Depending on the system adminstrator, ie. the disk space he's willing to give
- away for DUMMY's, these files will be stored in one of some dozen of
- compression "flavors". Thus, here's an excerpt from the FTP chapter of
- DUMMY's, that explains the whole story:
-
- FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
- *****************************
- [..]
- There are a wide variety of compression methods in use. You can tell
- which method was used by the last one to three letters at the end of a file.
- Here are some of the more common ones and what you'll need to un-compress the
- files they create (and these decompression programs can all be located
- through archie).
-
- `.txt'
- `.TXT'
- By itself, this means the file is a document, rather than a program.
-
- `.ps'
- `.PS'
- A PostScript document (in Adobe's page description language). You can
- print this file on any PostScript capable printer, or use a previewer,
- like GNU project's GhostScript.
-
- `.doc'
- `.DOC'
- Is another common suffix for documents. No de-compression is needed,
- unless it is followed by
-
- `.z'
- A file compressed by the Unix `pack' utility. It uses Huffman coding
- (which minimizes redundancy) on each byte. Type `unpack filename.z' or
- `gunzip filename.z' to decompress it. This suffix was also briefly used
- to indicate gzip'ed files before `.gz' was adopted. However, some sites
- *still* use this suffix for gzip'ed files, e.g. the EFF's FTP-server,
- due to local set-ups.
-
- `.Z'
- This is a Unix compression method. To uncompress the file, type
- `uncompress filename.Z' or `gunzip filename.z' and hit enter at your
- host system's command prompt. If it's a text file, you can read it
- online by typing `zcat file.txt.Z |more' at your host system's command
- line. There is a Macintosh program called "MacCompress" that you can use
- on your machine if you want to download the file (use archie to find
- where you can get it!). There's an MS-DOS equivalent, often found as
- `u16.ZIP', which means it is itself compressed in the ZIP format.
-
- `.zip'
- `.ZIP'
- An MS-DOS format. Use the PKZIP package (usually found as `PKZ201.exe'
- or something similar).
-
- `.gz'
- The GNU project's compression format. A variant of the PKZIP format. Use
- `gunzip filename.gz' to uncompress.
-
- `.zoo'
- `.ZOO'
- A Unix and MS-DOS format. Requires the use of a program called zoo.
-
- `.Hqx'
- `.hqx'
- A Macintosh format that needs BinHex for de-coding.
-
- `.shar'
- `.Shar'
- A Unix format. Use unshar.
-
- `.tar'
- Another Unix format, often used to glue several related files and/or
- completet directory trees into one big file. Use the `tar' command.
- Often, a "tarred" file will also be compressed with the `.Z' method, so
- you first have to use uncompress and then tar.
-
- `.TGZ'
- `.TAZ'
- Sometimes used for compressed tar archives `.tar.Z', that are stored on
- "3 letter suffix only systems" (aka MS-DOS).
-
- `.sit'
- `.Sit'
- A Macintosh format, requires StuffIt.
-
- `.ARC'
- A DOS format that requires the use of ARC or ARCE.
-
- `.LZH'
- Another DOS compression format; requires the use of LHARC.
-
- `.lz'
- `.lha'
- The Amiga variant of LHARC. It's the most common Amiga archiving method,
- and made with the program `lha' or `lz'.
-
- [..]
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE WHOLE LIST OF FILES
-
- Check the version number! Get 2.2, it's the latest! Some servers may
- run "out of pace" with updates; so check out more than one of the SERVERS
- listed below. The default distribution (all papers sizes) is placed on
- "ftp.Germany.EU.net", in "pub/books/big-dummys-guide/":
-
- |-README // FAQ file
- |-README.VMS // help for VMS folks
- |-big-dummys-guide-texi-|-bdgtti-2.2.ps.gz // PostScript
- |-bdgtti-2.2.dvi.gz // TeX DVI file
- |-bdgtti-2.2-US.dvi.gz // TeX DVI US paper
- |-bdgtti-2.2-US.ps.gz // TeX PS US paper
- |-bdgtti-2.2.info.gz // GNU Info file
- |-bdgtti-2.2.txt.gz // TEXT file
- |-bdgtti-2.2.html.tar.gz // HTML (WWW) files
- |-bdgtti-2.2.amiga.lha // AmigaGuide files
- |-bdgtti-2.2.tar.gz // all Texinfo sources
-
- In the US, it's avail. from "ftp.EFF.org", in "pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/
- Other_versions".
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * ANONYMOUS FTP
-
- AFRICA
- * South Africa
- ftp.sun.ac.za:/pub/misc/papers/big-dummys-guide *
-
- ASIA
- * South Korea
- cair.kaist.ac.kr:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ **
-
- AUSTRALIA
- ftp.vifp.monash.edu.au:/pub/userdocs/bdgtti/
-
- BETELGEUSE
- hftp.sirius.cybernetics.com:/pub/slurb-this!/big-dummys-guide/
-
- EUROPE
- * GERMANY
- ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/books/big-dummys-guide/
- bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/...
-
- NORTH AMERICA
- * USA
- ftp.eff.org:/pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/
- ftp.wustl.edu:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ **
- uceng.uc.edu:/pub/wuarchive/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ **
- ftp.hep.net:/networks/bigdummyguide/
-
- * CANADA
- ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror3/EFF/EFF/papers/ **
-
-
- * mirror of ftp.germany.eu.net version 2.2
- ** mirror of ftp.eff.org version 2.2
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * E-MAIL SERVERS
-
- EUROPE
- Address: <archive-server@germany.eu.net>
-
- Message layout:
- BEGIN
- REPLY <your-own-e-mail-address-here>
- SEND <file-name1>
- SEND <file-name2>
- ...
- END
-
- Sample:
- To: archive-server@germany.eu.net
- Subject:
-
- BEGIN
- REPLY dummy@neverland.com
- SEND books/big-dummys-guide/README
- SEND books/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-2.2.ps
- END
-
-
- NORTH AMERICA
- Address: <ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com>
-
- Message layout:
- reply <your-own-e-mail-address-here>
- connect <any-FTP-server-you-want>
- get <file-name1>
- get <file-name2>
- ...
- quit
-
- Sample:
- To: ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
- Subject:
-
- reply joke@foo.bar
- connect ftp.eff.org
- get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions/bdgtti-2.2.ps
- quit
-
- And then?
- You'll receive a mail from <nobody@pa.dec.com> with a contents similar
- to the following:
-
- We processed the following input from your mail message:
-
- reply joke@foo.bar
- connect ftp.eff.org
- get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions/bdgtti-2.2.ps
- quit
-
- We have entered the following request into our job queue
- as job number 749212187.29067:
-
- connect ftp.germany.eu.net anonymous -ftpmail/joke@foo.bar
- reply joke@foo.bar
- get pub/Net_Info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions/bdgtti-2.2.ps
-
- There are 876 jobs ahead of this one in our queue.
-
- You should expect the results to be mailed to you within a day or so.
- [..]
-
- NOTICE
- * If you don't know how to uncompress gzip'ed files (.gz), or any
- other howevercompressed files, just don't tell FTPmail the suffix!
- FTPmail is clever enough to *automatically* uncompress the file(s)
- split them, and mail them to you.
-
- * <file-name#> is the *full* filename, ie. including the PATH!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * FSP SERVERS
-
- You need to have the FSP client software installed on your system.
- If you don't know what FSP, clients, or software is, better choose a
- different service.
-
- EUROPE
- * GERMANY
- ftp.germany.eu.net 2001:/pub/books/big-dummys-guide/
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * Gopher
-
- ASIA
- * JAPAN
- gopher.ntt.jp: See "Other information"
-
- EUROPE
- * GERMANY
- gopher.germany.eu.net: See "EUnet Bookstore"
-
- * NORWAY
- gopher.oslonett.no: See "Informasjonsarkiv"
-
-
- NORTH AMERICA
- * USA
- gopher.eff.org: See "EFF Files & Information/Search the EFF on-line
- document library<?>" and search for "big-dummys"
- [warning: due to "site construction" the BDGttI may or may not be
- available from gopher.eff.org as of this writing. If it isn't, it
- will be eventually.]
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * World-Wide Web (entry points)
-
- ASIA
- * JAPAN
- http://www.ntt.jp/bdgtti/
-
- AUSTRALIA
- http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/bdgtti/
-
- EUROPE
- * AUSTRIA
- http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/doc/bdgtti/
- http://info.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/doc/
- http:/iuinfo.tuwien.ac.at/htdocs/
-
- * GERMANY
- http://www.germany.eu.net:8000/bdgtti/bdgtti.html
- http://physinfo.uni-augsburg.de:80
- http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/archive/doc/bdgtti/bdg_toc.html
-
- * HUNGARY
- http://bagira.fsz.bme.hu/welcome.html
- [machine: bagira.fsz.bme.hu (152.66.76.5)]
-
- * NORWAY
- http://www.oslonett.no/html/bdgtti/bdgtti.html
-
- * SWITZERLAND
- http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/Dummy/
-
- * UNITED KINGDOM
- http://sg1.cc.ic.ac.uk:6680/bdg/bdgtti.html
-
- NORTH AMERICA
- * USA
- http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/docs/bdgtti.html
- http://www.hep.net/documents/bigdummy/bdgtti.html
- [note: an EFF WWW server is in the works. Don't hold your breath.
- but you might give: http://www.eff.org a try.]
-
- http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/bigdummy/bdg_toc.html
-
- >>> Search the Big Dummy's Guide by Topic:
- http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/srch.cgi/search/bigdummy/mylist
-
- http://vermithrax.jpl.nasa.gov
-
- * CANADA
- http://www.cs.dal.ca/dummy.html
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * CREDITS
-
- Another BIG "thank you" to the following Net.saints, who made
- DUMMY's publicly accessible (in any form) from their sites. In the order of
- appearance in my mailbox:
-
- * Ingo Dressler <id@germany.eu.net>
- EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Germany.
-
- * Christopher Davis <ckd@kei.com>
- * Helen T. Rose Davis <hrose@kei.com>
- KEI - Kapor Enterprises Inc., Cambridge MA, USA (formerly with EFF)
-
- * Dan Brown <brown@eff.org>
- * Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
- EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington DC, USA.
-
- * Bo Frese Rasmussen <bfrasmus@eso.org>
- ESO - European Southern Observatory, Space Telescope,
- European Coordinating Facility
-
- * Rik Harris <rik@rdt.monash.edu.au>
- Victorian Inst. of Forensic Pathology, Monash Uni, Australia
- http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/people/rik.html
-
- * Jeremy Payne <jeremy@wildcat.npa.uiuc.edu>
- UIUC Neuroscience program, College of Medicine, IL, USA.
-
- * James Grinter <jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Imperial College, University of London, UK.
-
- * Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar@cui.unige.ch>
- University of Geneva, Switzerland.
-
- * David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
- Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
-
- * TAKADA Toshihiro <takada@seraph.ntt.jp>
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., NTT Basic Research Labs.,
- Information Science Research Lab., Japan.
-
- * Jeff Dingbaum <dingbaum@hep.net>
- National HEPnet Management at Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA.
- http://www.hep.net/general/dingbaum/dingbaum.html
-
- * Otmar Lendl <lendl@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
- University of Salzburg, Austria.
-
- * Elmar Schmidinger <eschmidi@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Guenter <enzi@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
- Technical University of Vienna, Faculty of Architecture and
- Urban planning, Austria.
-
- * Pieter Immelman <pi@itu2.sun.ac.za>
- The University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Africa.
-
- * Ralf Utermann <utermann@uni-augsburg.de>
- University of Augburg, Institute of Theoretical Physics I &
- Computer Center
-
- * Paul F. Mende <mende@het.brown.edu>
- Dept. of Physics, Brown University
-
- * Steinar Kjaernsrod <steinar@oslonett.no>
- Oslonet, Inc.
-
- * Maray Tamas <maray@fix.fsz.bme.hu>
- Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
-
- * Rob Kabacoff <kabacoff@alpha.acast.nova.edu>
- Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314
-
- * Andreas Gehmeyr <gehmeyr@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
- FORWISS Passau
- http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/forwiss/mitarbeiter/hiwis/gehmeyr.html
-
- * Tony Sprinzl <sl@ntsun.edvz.tuwien.ac.at>
- Univ. of Technology Vienna/Computing Services
-
- * Roger Lighty <ral@vermithrax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
- Vermithrax New Application Development, NASA Jet Propulsion Labs.,
- Pasadena, CA.
-
- -=- * -=-
- --- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: VERSIONS,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:27 joke Rel $
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Format * Version:Date * Author * * Computer/Software
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- ASCII 1.0:20/08/93 Adam Gaffin any
- 1.1:02/09/93 <adamg@world.std.com>
- 1.2:??/09/93
- 1.3:26/10/93
- 1.4:22/12/93
- 2.0:21/01/94
- 2.1:03/02/94
- 2.2:23/02/94
-
- * FILE(S):
- /pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/bigdummy.txt (Unix)
- /pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/bigd-txt.zip (DOS)
-
- [also available on various BBSs and other systems
- as bigdummy.*, bdummy.*, bdguide.*, bdg.*, bdgtti.*;
- .* may be .txt, .doc, .zip, etc.]
-
-
- GeoWorks 2.0 Adam Gaffin 286PC
- <adamg@world.std.com> GeoWorks Write
- /pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions/bigd-geo.zip
-
-
- Windows Help 2.0 Eric R. Smith PC, Windows 3.1
- <Eric_R_Smith@cup.portal.com>
- /pub/Net_info/Big_Dummy/Other_versions/bigd-win.zip
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- Texinfo 1.0:02/09/93 Joerg Heitkoetter any (Unixoid)
- 1.1:22/09/93 <joke@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- 1.2:26/09/93
- 1.3:17/12/93
- 1.4:01/01/94
- 2.0:02/02/94
- 2.2:26/02/94
-
- * FILE(S):
- TeX DVI: bdgtti-2.2.dvi.gz TeX
- PostScript: bdgtti-2.2.ps.gz GhostScript/View
- TeX DVI (US paper): bdgtti-2.2-US.dvi.gz TeX
- PostScript (US paper): bdgtti-2.2-US.ps.gz GhostScript/View
- GNU Info: bdgtti-2.2.info.gz GNU info/xinfo/emacs
- ASCII Text: bdgtti-2.2.txt.gz *
- HyperText Markup Language: bdgtti-2.2.html.tar.gz WWW tools/Mosaic
- AmigaGuide HyperText:** bdgtti-2.2.amiga.lha AmigaGuide
- The whole Texinfo sources: bdgtti-2.2.tar.gz many Unix tools
-
- ** AmigaGuide version courtesy
- by Holger Hoffstaette (see below)
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- HyperCard 1.0:20/08/93 Steve Cisler Apple Macintosh
- 1.1:21/08/93 <sac@apple.com> HyperCard
-
- * FILE(S):
- big-dummys-guide.sit.hqx
- [may also show up as big-dummys-guide.sea.hqx or
- big-dummys-guide.cpt.hqx, or as BigDummy.*]
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- AmigaGuide 1.0:30/08/93 Robin Evans Commodore Amiga
- 1.1:04/09/93 <robin@halcyon.com> AmigaGuide
-
- 1.4:07/01/94 Holger Hoffstaette
- 2.2:02/02/94 <hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de>
-
- * FILE(S): *
- ...aminet/text/hyper/bdgtti-2.2.guide.lha or
- ...aminet/text/docs/bdgtti-2.2.guide.lha
-
- Aminet sites:
- Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/aminet/
- Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32 pub/aminet/ (*)
- Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.32 pub/aminet/
- USA ftp.etsu.edu 192.43.199.20 pub/aminet/
- USA wuarchive.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/
- UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 pub/aminet/
- Australia splat.aarnet.edu.au 192.107.107.6 pub/aminet/ (*)
- (*) closed 6:30am to 4pm weekdays
-
- ** NOTE: the AmigaGuide format, which requires the AmigaGuide utility for
- Amiga-OS 1.x or 2.x. Under 3.x, it can be used with MultiView.
- The file "AmiGuide2Inet1_1.lha" on some AmiNet sites is outdated, since
- January '94.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-
- ** HyperCard and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
- AmigaGuide is a trademark of Commodore Computer Corp.
- PostScript is a trademark of Adobe System, Inc.
- Unix is a trademark of Bell Labs, now owned by AT&T.
-
- HTML is affiliated with the World-Wide Web project of CERN, Switzerland.
- Texinfo is affiliated with the GNU project of The Free Software Foundation.
-
- Joke is not a trademark of Jester Inside, Inc., which doesn't exist.
-
-
- -=- * -=-
- -- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: CREDITS,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:21 joke Rel $
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- "Du willst laufen wie ein Kind im Wind, und dahin kommen wo wir
- anderen schon so lange sind---ins Labyrinth" -- Spliff
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE PEOPLE?
-
- The following individuals, consciously (and unconsciously), willingly (and
- unwillingly) contributed to the Texinfo project as a whole; in the order af
- their respective appearance:
-
- * Shari Steele <ssteele@eff.org>
- * Howard Rheingold <hrl@well.sf.ca.us>
- * Bernd Raichle <raichle@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- * Adam Gaffin <adamg@world.std.com>
- * Brendan Kehoe <brendan@zen.org>
- * Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.sf.ca.us>
- * Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@security.ov.com>
- * Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>
- * Greg Chartrand <Greg_Chartrand@qmail.ssc.gov>
- * Brad Templeton <brad@looking.on.ca>
- * Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond <ocl@ic.ac.uk>
- * Ingo Dressler <ingo.dressler@germany.eu.net>
- * David Sternlight <strnlght@netcom.com>
- * Otto Lang <mst1@io.org>
- * Christopher K. Davis <ckd@kei.com>
- * Iain O'Cain <ec@umcc.umich.edu>
- * Lionel Cons <cons@dxcern.cern.ch>
- * David J. Bianco <bianco@cs.odu.edu>
- * Achim Voermanek <voer@rz.uni-sb.de>
- * Noel Hunter <noel@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu>
- * R. Stewart Ellis <ellis@nova.gmi.edu>
- * Mark Sanderson <sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
- * Bo Frese Rasmussen <bfrasmus@eso.org>
- * Chris Varner <cdvarn@m003.mystech.com>
- * Martin Schweikert <schweik@cpp.ob.open.de>
- * Timo Harmo <harmo@cc.helsinki.fi>
- * Rik Harris <rik@rdt.monash.edu.au>
- * James Grinter <jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- * Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar@cui.unige.ch>
- * Jeremy Payne <jeremy@wildcat.npa.uiuc.edu>
- * David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
- * Michael P. Urban <urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov>
- * Mark Woodward <mwoodwar@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- * Iain Lea <iain@anl433.erlm.siemens.de>
- * David E. Fox <root@Belvedere%hip-hop.suvl.ca.us>
- * Peter Smulders <peter@nvsf.phys.rug.nl>
- * Gert C Van Rooyen <ucca15n@ucl.ac.uk>
- * Patrick Nielsen Hayden <pnh@panix.com>
- * Robin Evans <robin@halcyon.com>
- * Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
- * Helen Trillian Rose Davis <hrose@kei.com>
- * Jon L. Spear <spear@cs.nps.navy.mil>
- * Alan Legatt <legatt@aecom.yu.edu>
- * Paul Brown <pbrown@bobsbox.rent.com>
- * Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
- * Ted Shapin <tshapin@biivax.dp.beckman.com>
- * Roman Schwartz <schwartz@ppgfr.uucp>
- * TAKADA Toshihiro <takada@seraph.ntt.jp>
- * Fred Schimmel <schimmel@gandalf.ca>
- * Antony Cooper <acooper@nuustak.csir.co.za>
- * Lennat Tower, jr. <tower@prep.ai.mit.edu>
- * Jon Bell <jtbell@cs1.presby.edu>
- * John Campbell <jdc@sunset.cse.nau.edu>
- * Ed Moore <edmoore@vcd.hp.com>
- * Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
- * Arthur Secret <secret@dxcern.cern.ch>
- * Jason Schmit <jason@vsi.com>
- * Uri S. Naishtut <root@sbi.samara.su>
- * Chris Ruprecht <chris@eurassi.co.za>
- * Dan Brown <brown@eff.org>
- * Keith Bostic <bostic@bostic.com>
- * Clemens Schrimpe <csch@csch.home.netcs.com>
- * Reinhold Tokar <100014.3265@CompuServe.COM>
- * Jeff Dingbaum <dingbaum@hep.net>
- * Jim Meyering <meyering@idefix.comco.com>
- * Otmar Lendl <lendl@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
- * Warwick Kau-Choon Chai <s922733@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- * Pieter Immelman <pi@itu2.sun.ac.za>
- * Joseph Taylor Potts <potts@cse.uta.edu>
- * Guenter <enzi@iue.tuwien.ac.at>
- * Reiner Hoenig <HOE@bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de>
- * Steve Cisler <sac@well.sf.ca.us>
- * James Rice <rice@Stanford.EDU>
- * Stephen C. Trier <trier@slc6.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- * James E. Burns <burns@nova.bellcore.com>
- * Rodrigo Vanegas <rv@cs.brown.edu>
- * Steve VanDevender <stevev@miser.uoregon.edu>
- * Reinier de Vos <devos@aqua.ccwr.ac.za>
- * Gerald Malitz <gm@germal.escape.de>
- * David Mason <vid@io.org>
- * Volker Kunert <volker@numsun1.mathematik.uni-halle.de>
- * David Beasley <David.Beasley@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- * Anthony Rajakumar <arajakum@mtu.edu>
- * Aniekan Akpaffiong <aniekan@ucs.usc.edu>
- * A. Solomon Eaglstein <WELFARE%ILNCRD@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL>
- * Jan Adlington <janicea@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
- * Elaine Jackson <elaine@math.unc.edu>
- * John Sheckler <NDQAJDS@ATSCV1.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
- * Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
- * Dave Rosselle <rosselle@attmail.com>
- * Cristine Hollinshead <C.Hollinshead@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- * Wolfhang Banzaf <banzaf@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- * Stoffel Erasmus <ERASMUS@cs.ufh.ac.za>
- * Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
- * Robert E. Maas <rem@public.btr.com>
- * Bryan D. Boyle <bdboyle@maverick1.erenj.com>
- * Paul F. Mende <mende@het.brown.edu>
- * Michael A. Patton <MAP@nic.dsi.net>
- * Joseph E. Sacco <jsacco@ssl.com>
- * Steinar Kjaernsrod <steinar@oslonett.no>
- * Luis Ochoa Giraldo <postmaster@lochoa.inv.pe>
- * Thomas Gellekum <thomasg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- * Moritz D. Klingholz <moritz@boa.math.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- * Benedikt Homann <www@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- * Holger Hoffstaette <hoff@darmstadt.gmd.de>
- * Maray Tamas <maray@fix.fsz.bme.hu>
- * Forrest Cook <cook@stout.atd.ucar.EDU>
- * Shmuel Browns <SHMULI@accent.co.il>
- * Roland H. Pesch <pesch@cygnus.com>
- * Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- * Dawn Cooley <cooley@pioneer.uspto.gov>
- * John O'Hare <john.ohare@cbis.com>
- * George D. Greenwade <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- * Tony Sprinzl <sl@ntsun.edvz.tuwien.ac.at>
-
- Thanks alot, folks!
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE AGENTS?
-
- Additional thanks to the following people for local propaganda:
-
- * Ruediger Jegelka <jegelka@lion.de>
- * Joerg Svensson <joerg@metaworks.de>
- * Jenna Wai-Mun Dea <jenna@cats.ucsc.edu>
- * Uri S. Naishtut <root@sbi.samara.su>
- * Susanne Spitzer <100141.1745@CompuServe.COM>
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE ARTISTS?
-
- Ok, here's the list of a whole bunch of Musicians, that provided the
- right sound during production of the Texinfo version, in alphabetical order:
-
- * BAP (Pik Sibbe)
- * Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet, Keep the Faith)
- * The Cross (Blue Rock)
- * Dire Straits (On the Night: Live)
- * Genesis (A Trick of the Tail, ...and then there were three, Duke)
- * Fish (Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors)
- * Guns 'N Roses (Use your Illusion I+II, The Spaghetti Incident?)
- * Marillion (Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws)
- * Meat Loaf (Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Rock 'N Roll Hero)
- * Mike Oldfield (Crisis, Tubular Bells II, Amarok)
- * Pink Floyd (The Wall)
- * Prince (Sign O' the Times)
- * Queen (A Day at the Races, Innuendo)
- * Saga (Beginner's Guide to throwing Shapes, Security of Illusion)
- * Simple Minds (Real Life)
- * Spliff (Radio Show, 85555, Herzlichen Glueckwunsch, Alles Gute!)
- * Styx (Paradise Theatre, Edge of the Century)
- * Supertramp (Very Best of: White label)
- * U2 (Wide Awake in America, Joshua Tree)
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- * THE WOMEN?
-
- Special thanks to my virtual little sisters: Oggi, Bettina, Gabi, Nora,
- Claudia, Christiane, Heidi, Marietta, Martina, Angela, Astrid, Kirsten, Ilke,
- Kerstin, Renate, Rosie, Jenna, Heike, Nicole, Cornelia, Susanne, Davika, and
- some other *long legged complex systems,* who contributed passion to the
- *abstract hill* I compiled over the past years.
-
- Finally, love to Ute, the *strange attractor* that rules the chaos I call
- life. And of course to Monika, my original little sister, without her, I'd
- never known how much fun it is to be a *big brother*...
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- "If your life is just a highway, and your soul is just a car,
- objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are..."
- -- Jim Steinway for Meat Loaf
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- --- big-dummys-guide-texi/$Id: COPYLITE,v 2.2 1994/02/06 13:54:21 joke Rel $
-
- * WHATZ COPYLITE?
-
- Copyright in a virtual medium is something very hard to define and/or
- persue. In general you should treat this book as you would treat any other
- book, with the following exceptions:
-
- * If you think any information given in this guide is partially invalid or
- simply wrong, rewrite the paragraph(s) and send them to the Texinfo
- editor/coordinator. Notes of this kind are greatly appreciated even
- if you cannot provide a rewritten paragraph, just tell what you think
- is wrong.
-
- * If you think information is omitted and/or must be provided on
- subjects not yet discussed herein, no problem, drop the current
- Texinfo editor/coordinator your new Texinfo @node and it will
- be included in future releases.
-
- These ideas are not that brandnew, usually this is what happens to
- FreeWare software packages, posted to The Net. But as time goes by and
- MultiMedia and electronically available texts (e-text) become more and
- more common, these give-aways are also well-suited for distribution
- under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL). Anyway, there's a subtle
- but intriguing difference between software pieces and electronically
- available texts, i.e. a text "implements" it's authors view, and thus
- changing it would immediately "fake" it's contents.
-
- We conclude that there must be a facility to INDIVIDUALLY COPYRIGHT "pieces"
- of e-texts, such that reflected opinions CANNOT BE CHANGED, UNLESS THESE
- CHANGES ARE APPROVED BY THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR(s). WE THEREFORE CALL THE
- RESULTING PROTECTION SCHEME "COPYLITE," RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
- TRADITIONAL COPYRIGHT, AND THE GNUISH COPYLEFT PROTECTION SCHEMES.
-
- THE TERMS OF THE GPL APPLY TO THIS TEXINFO PACKAGE WITH A SINLGE BUT
- SIGNIFICANT EXCEPTION: YOU MUSN'T CHANGE THE INDIVIDUALLY COPYRIGHTED PARTS
- OF THE BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET. THESE ARE LISTED BELOW:
-
- * COPYLITE: ``COPYLITE License''
- Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Heitkoetter. All rights reserved.
-
- * gpl.texi: ``GNU General Public License''
- Copyright (c) 1992 by Free Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
-
- * gday.texi: ``G'day, folks!''
- Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Heitkoetter. All rights reserved.
-
- * welcome.texi: ``Welcome''
- Copyright (c) 1994 by Mitchell Kapor. All rights reserved.
-
- * foreword.texi: ``Foreword''
- Copyright (c) 1993 by Mitch Kapor. All rights reserved.
-
- * nyt.texi: ``Subject: A Superhighway through the Wasteland?''
- Copyright (c) 1993 by New York Times Corporartions. All rights reserved.
-
- * preface.texi: ``Preface''
- * adam.texi: ``Conclusion: The End?''
- Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Adam Gaffin. All rights reserved.
-
- * howard.texi: ``A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community''
- Copyright (c) 1992 by Howartd Rheingold. All rights reserved.
-
- * bruce.texi: ``A Statement of Principle''
- Copyright (c) 1992 by Bruce Sterling. All rights reserved.
-
- * nren.texi: ``Subject: A Perspective on NREN''
- Copyright (c) 1993 by Greg Chartrand. All rights reserved.
-
- * emily.texi: ``Dear Emily Postnews''
- Copyright (c) 1991 by Brad Templeton. All rights reserved.
-
- * eff.texi: ``Information on the Electronic Frontier Foundation''
- Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by EFF. All rights reserved.
-
- * isocodes.texi: ``ISO 3166 Country Codes''
- Copyright (c) 1993 by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond. All rights reserved.
-
- * time.texi: ``Subject: TIME Article on Internet''
- Copyright (c) 1993 by Philip Elmer-Dewitt. All rights reserved.
-
- -=- * -=-
-
- RESPECT COPYLITE, ENCOURAGE CREATIVITY.
-
- -=- * -=-
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