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Finding a needle ... (Part II) http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10b.html search descriptions, locate, retrieve, or order files. Narrow your search by stating the desired hardware or software platform, as in Commodore Amiga, Atari, MS DOS, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Novell Netware, IBM OS/2, Unix/Linux, etc. Use Boolean operators (AND and NOT), specify case requirements, use wildcards (like *, | and ?), delimit by file creation dates, demand matches in paths and file names, and limit the size of the search report. Using a program like Netscape, just click on the desired files to have them transferred to your local disk. Easy. To search a huge database of files on the Internet, try FTP Search . In September 1996, their index contained over 62 million files. FTP Search features advanced search options to help you narrow down to the file you want, including case insensitive/sensitive substring searches, limiting to a given domain and path, as well as many formatting options. On bulletin board systems, there are many different search methods. Example: You're visiting a bulletin board based on the BBS program RBBS PC. You want a program that can show GIF graphics picture files. Such files are typically described like this: VUIMG31.EXE 103105 07 15 91 GIF*/TIFF/PCX Picture Viewer From left to right: file name, size in bytes, date available, and a 40 character description. You can search the file descriptions for the string "gif". You do this by entering the term "s gif all". This will probably give you a list of files. Some will have the letters GIF in the file name. Others will have them in the description field. CompuServe has several "Find this File" services. Searching conferences and forums On Usenet, it is easy. Simply connect to The Deja News Research Service above. Many mailing lists maintain log files, and offer ways of searching them. Often, you must be a subscriber to search, so it is more cumbersome. Many services have commands for selective reading of messages. For example, on CompuServe you can limit your search to given sections. You can also select messages to be read based on text strings in the subject titles. The command rs;s;CIS Access from Japan;62928 displays all messages with the text "CIS Access from Japan" in their subject titles starting with message number 62928. Most users have their programs do this automatically for them. For examples, OzWin and TAPCIS handles this well. Such message filtering is also common in Usenet newsreaders. For example, the Free Agent program from Forte Advanced Management Software, Inc. lets you go online to retrieve message headers, mark off those you want to read, and then call back to retrieve the selected message bodies. Searching by email When searching a database stored on another continent, then the speed of response may be a problem. In such cases, note that several databases on the Internet can be searched by email. Reference.COM (Chapter 11) allows for searching of Usenet postings, while the Agora servers let you search many databases using World Wide Web by email services (Chapter 12). MCI Mail and MCI Fax have a program called Information Advantage, under which online services and newsletters can deliver search results and other information over the online services. Using discussion lists through the Internet 4 of 13 23.11.2009 15:47
Finding a needle ... (Part II) http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/10b.html For instructions about how to get a directory of LISTSERV based mailing lists, send the following email message: To: listserv@listserv.nodak.edu Subject: (keep this blank) Text: LIST GLOBAL You will receive a LONG list of available sources of information. The list dated March 8, 1996, had over twenty three thousand lines. Each mailing list is described with two lines. Here are some examples from the list: Network wide ID Host address and list description AARWA L listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu African & Africa Related Women's Assoc.(AARWA) AAT L AAT L request@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU Art & Architecture Thesaurus Discussion List ACADEMIA listserv@technion.technion.ac.il Academia Forum on Higher Education in Israel BBS TR listserv@vm.ege.edu.tr BBS Listesi (Turkish) CAPES L listproc@listas.ansp.br Grupo de discussao da CAPES EUROTRI_CV majordomo@uv.es Foro de las OTRIs de la Comunidad Valenciana HIRIS L listserv@icineca.cineca.it HIgh Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy List The column "Network wide ID" contains the names of the mailing lists. "Full address and list description" contains the email addresses that members use when submitting discussion items, and a short textual description of each conference. Keep the list on your hard disk. This makes it easier to find sources of information, when you need them. Subscribing to mailing lists These mailing list, also often called 'discussion list', work like online conferences or message sections on bulletin boards, but technically they are different. (Read about Kidlink in Chapter 2 for background information.) All these lists are controlled by a program called LISTSERV on the host given under "Full address" above. Thus, to subscribe or signoff to the AAT L mailing list above, write to listserv@listserv.uic.edu. Mailing lists offer "conferencing" with the following important functions: All "discussion items" (that is, electronic messages sent to the lists' email address) are distributed to all subscribers. Messages are usually automatically stored in notebook archives. You can search these log files, and you can have them sent to you as electronic mail. Files can often be stored in the lists' associated file libraries for distribution to subscribers on demand. The term "Network wide ID" signifies that you do not need to subscribe by email to the host running a mailing list's LISTSERV. If there is a LISTSERV on a host in a country closer to where you live, then you can subscribe to this rather than to the remote. This helps keep the total costs of the international network down. Example: You live in Norway. There is a LISTSERV in nearby Finland at listserv@fiport.funet.fi. You can send your AAT L subscription request (SUBSCRIBE AAT L FirstName LastName) to this address, rather than to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu. 5 of 13 23.11.2009 15:47
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