cni-directories: Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
Brendan Kehoe (brendan@CS.WIDENER.EDU)
Wed, 5 Feb 1992 22:53:22 -0500
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 22:53:22 -0500
From: Brendan Kehoe <brendan@CS.WIDENER.EDU>
Subject: Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
I'd like to announce the availability of the first edition of booklet
that I hope will find a wide-spread audience. It's called ``Zen and
the Art of the Internet'', and serves as an introductory text to using
the Internet in its various incarnations. In approximately 100 pages,
Zen addresses domain names, electronic mail, telnet and ftp, and a
variety of other topics. An extensive glossary and fairly decent
bibliography are also included.
This booklet explicitly avoids being oriented towards one specific
operating system or computing environment. It's not Unix-heavy, nor
does it directly address VMS or any other OS. Rather, it provides the
fundamental concepts and ideas behind using the Internet, and leaves
the specific details of command options and usage to the local site.
Directors of academic computing services departments for universities
and colleges are encouraged to make copies for their user communities;
system administrators are welcome to offer it to their users, whether
the system be private, commercial, or public; any companies in need of
training or other educational literature may use this booklet as an
aid; and, most of all, "normal users" are invited to use it to help
expand their knowledge of the Internet and the possibilities it
offers. The author is keenly interested in hearing from anyone
considering large distribution; if you're going to do such a thing,
please drop me a line just to satisfy my curiosity.
Now, how to get it. Printed copies are currently unavailable (Widener
has no mechanism to deal with this sort of publishing). However, the
guide is available via anonymous FTP from a number of sites. It's
stored in three forms: a .tar.Z file (Unix-ites will know what to do
with this), a .dvi file (output from the TeX typesetting system), and
a .PS (Postscript) file. Right now there isn't an ASCII version, but
it's in the works to make one widely available.
* ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] in /inet/doc
* ftp.cs.toronto.edu [128.100.3.6] in pub/zen
* ftp.cs.widener.edu [147.31.254.132] in pub/zen as zen-1.0.tar.Z,
zen-1.0.dvi, and zen-1.0.PS
* ftp.sura.net [128.167.254.179] in pub/nic as zen-1.0.PS
If you're limited to UUCP, you can get it anonymously by calling UUNET
at 900/GOT-SRCS and get the file /inet/doc/FILES.
Please send any comments, questions, whatever, to guide-notes@cs.widener.edu.
Thanks, and I hope you find it useful!
Brendan Kehoe
brendan@cs.widener.edu
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Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
Widener University Chester, PA
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