cni-directories: Re: Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
Re: Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
David A. Hanson (dahanson@COLBY.EDU)
Mon, 10 Feb 1992 16:25:15 -0500
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 16:25:15 -0500
From: "David A. Hanson" <dahanson@COLBY.EDU>
Subject: Re: Announcing a Beginner's Guide to the Internet
Greta, let's get this by ftp, I'd say both the tar.z and
the postscript.
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> Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide
>
>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
>
>--
>Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
>Widener University Chester, PA
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