From: euectk@UTS.MCC.AC.UK (Thomas Krichel)
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Subject: Economic Bulletin Board
Date: 26 Jul 92 13:03:18 GMT
Reply-To: Thomas Krichel <euectk@UTS.MCC.AC.UK>
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   Greetings,

  The following item has appeared originally in govdoc-l, and came
  to me via buslib-l. I apologize to those who have already
  seen it on those channel. I thought that it was sufficiently important
  to be distributed further.

>      Over 700 files from the Commerce Department's Economic Bulletin Board,
> Census STF1A summaries for all 2000 counties, places and minor civil
> divisions in Michigan, and library catalogs from around the world can now
> be accessed through Internet and Michnet via the University of Michigan
> Library's new GOPHER system.  The EBB files are updated daily and include
> 17 areas related to the U.S. economy, among them the gross domestic
> product, consumer price index, treasury bill rates, unemployment, and
> Trade Opportunity Program announcements.  Additional Census files
> include selected U.S. summaries and CD-ROM guides.  STF3A summaries for
> Michigan may be added this fall.
>      To access the files, you will first need to reach the Merit (MTS)
> Network's "Which Host?" prompt.  If you need instructions on how to do
> this, contact the U-M Computing Resource Center at 313-764-HELP.
> Generally, Michigan sites can reach MTS through their local MICHNET
> numbers while Internet sites can TELNET "hermes.merit.edu".
>      At the "Which Host?" prompt, type "um-ulibrary" with the quotes.
> At the "login" prompt, type "gopher". Follow the menu through the
> "Social Science Data."
>      The files are hierarchical.  To move through the system, use the
> arrow keys to highlight and hit RETURN.
>      If a MENU has more than one screen, type ">" to move forward and
> "<" to move backward.  When there are multiple DATA screens or
> TEXTUAL files, press the space bar to advance.  Press "u" to go up
> or backtract the menu hierarchy.  Press "q" to quit.
>      To download a file into your own computer account, position the
> arrow next to the menu selection and press "=".  Make a note of the
> path (e.g. "0/census/summaries/stf1us.sum") and host (e.g.
> "una.hh.lib.umich.edu") that will be displayed.  Quit um-ulibrary.
>      Sign on to your own computer account.  At the # prompt, type
> "ftp hostname" (e.g. ftp una.hh.lib.umich.edu).  At the name prompt,
> type "anonymous", and at the password prompt, type your e-mail address.
> To change to the proper directory, ignore the leading "0" in the path.
> At the "ftp>" prompt, type "cd [directory]" (e.g. CD census/summaries).
> To see the contents of the directory, at the "ftp>" prompt, type "LS".
> Then at the next "ftp>" prompt, type "get [filename]" (e.g.
> "get stf1us.sum"). To exit, at the "ftp>" prompt, type "bye".
>      I'll do my best to answer any questions you may have or refer them
> to our technical experts, who have really done an outstanding job of
> putting this together over the past few months.
>                         -- Grace York, Government Documents Librarian,
>                            University of Michigan
>                            grace.york@um.cc.umich.edu OR
>                            USERGBP2@UMICHUM or 313-764-0410
>

  Actually this gopher can be called by telnet to una.hh.lib.umich.edu.
  Acces via other gophers should also be possible. Mail transfer works
  for the ascii files. For compressed files you will need ftp.

  Cheers,
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    /   /                              Department of Economics
   /   /_  ________  __.  _            Loughborough University
  /   / /_(_) / / <_(_/|_/_)           LE11 3TU
    _   ,                  _           Great Britain
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    /   /                              Department of Economics
   /   /_  ________  __.  _            Loughborough University
  /   / /_(_) / / <_(_/|_/_)           LE11 3TU
    _   ,                  _           Great Britain
   ' ) /           /      //           Tel.: 44 - 509 - 222732
    /-<  __  o _. /_  _  //            Fax:  44 - 509 - 269232
  ./   )/ (_<_(__/ /_</_</_            E-mail: Krichel@uts.mcc.ac.uk