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Web/Internet tools and pointers http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v6.html<br />

Also, see Veronica below.<br />

Gophermail<br />

To use Gopher by electronic mail. Messages containing menus and gopher link<br />

information are mailed you in response to your requests. You reply to these messages<br />

and show which menu items you want. Lets you use the Gopher without having a direct<br />

"live" Internet network connection.<br />

Send a message to one of the following addresses for more information:<br />

gophermail@cr df.rnp.br (Brazil)<br />

gomail@ncc.go.jp (Japan)<br />

gopher@dsv.su.se (Sweden)<br />

If you send a blank message, a help screen will be returned to you.<br />

GopherMail's options include:<br />

Requesting the Gopher menu for a specific host name,<br />

Message splitting after a certain file size (for those with a size limit on email<br />

messages),<br />

Re using links to selected gopher menus by saving them in a local "Bookmarks"<br />

file.<br />

Binary and Sound Files are sent as uuencoded files.<br />

To perform a search, select that menu item with an "x" and supply your search<br />

words in the Subject: of your next reply. Note that your search criteria can be a single<br />

word or a boolean expression such as:<br />

computers and (macintosh or ms dos)<br />

Home page<br />

An Internet document created with HTML (the HyperText Markup Language) often<br />

containing graphics, text, and hypertext links to other "pages."<br />

HotJava<br />

A modular, applet aware, extensible <strong>World</strong> Wide Web browser written in the Java<br />

programming language.<br />

HTML<br />

<strong>The</strong> HyperText Markup Language is used to compose WWW pages. Sources for<br />

information (also, see "WWW" below):<br />

A Beginner's Guide to HTML<br />

WebMaestro (Spanish)<br />

W3Schools<br />

HTML FAQ for beginners<br />

HTML Alphabetical Reference List by Name<br />

Intermediate HTML FAQ<br />

HTML standards<br />

Compendium of HTML Elements<br />

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)<br />

HTTP<br />

Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Hypertext is text with pointers to other text. Thus,<br />

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