From: danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Dan Jacobson)
Subject: Re: FTP/Gopher
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:06:23 GMT

In article <9301251629.AA15573@boombox.micro.umn.edu> CCD@BROWNVM.brown.edu (Clare Durst) writes:
>There seem to be more and more FAQ files out there for people to get to.
>Has anyone gathered pointers to them into once place so we could put
>them into our Brown gopher? I see FAQs for Pagemaker, Canines, etc., etc.
>If no one HAS a source of a list of these FAQs, but knows of some of them,
>let me know, so at least *I* can get them! Thanks.

Point your gopher at merlot.welch.jhu.edu (128.220.59.18) and look in the 
following directory:

 -->  17. Usenet News and FAQs/

and you'll see:

         1.  About These Services.
         2.  All FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Searches and Archives/
         3.  Read USENET News Groups/
         4.  Search messages to Usenet Newsgroups/

SuraNet seems to be down a lot today so if you can't get through try again 
later.  Sorry, way out of my control.

Here's a clip from the "About These Services" file.


This directory contains links to the USNET Newsgroups as well as
searches which allow you to utilize the wealth of information that is
available on these groups.

Descriptions of the entries are as follows:

     2.  All FAQs (Frequently asked Questions) Searches and Archives/

From this directory you may Search a few selected FAQs (frequently asked
questions and their answers) or you may search all of the FAQs (hundreds
of them) at once.  The chances are that the answer to you question can be
found by using these searches so search here before you post a question to
a newsgroup.

Note - if you search the

Search Macintosh FAQ (Long) <?>

category you can use booleans (and, not), wildcards (*), and phrase
searches ("  ").

If you have a specific FAQ in mind you may go to the FAQs - Archives
directory which contains the individual FAQs for hundreds and hundreds
of News groups.  The initial connection will be a little slow
(so be patient :-) as gopher is downloading the links to over 400
directories to your client.The FAQS themselves are kept in compressed (.Z)
format so you will need to be able to uncompress them on your machine.  The
uncompress utility is standard on Unix systems and there are
uncompress utilities for Macs and DOS, available as freeware or
shareware, two of which you can find in the Utilities directory.

maccompress-32.hqx - compress/uncompress for the Mac.

comp430d.zip - compress/uncompress for DOS.



      3.  Read USENET News Groups/

You can read Usenet News groups from here by selecting the
USENET News directory.  Once you have selected this directory
you will be presented with the top level of Usenet hierarchy:

      3.  alt/
      4.  bionet/
      5.  bit/
      6.  biz/
      7.  clari/
      8.  comp/
      9.  control/
      10. cscw-implementors/
      11. ddn/
      12. general/
      13. gnu/
      14. junk/
      15. local/
      16. mi/
      17. misc/
      18. msu/
      19. news/
      20. rec/
      21. sci/
      22. soc/
      23. talk/
      24. to/
      25. unix-pc/

pick a directory and continue along the tree, reading the
newsgroups of your choice.
                                    


      4.  Search messages to Usenet Newsgroups/

This directory contains Wais sources which allow you to
search the archives of the meassages posted to various
Newsgroups.  The files indexed for searching vary somewhat
from group to group - the Biosci.src searches all of the
messages posted to all of the groups in the Biosci hierarchy,
while the comp.sys.src only searches the past 10 days of
postings.  However a surprising number of these cover the
all the messages ever posted to the group.

The "Search Bionet and Info-GCG articles " and 
sun-managers-summary.src searches support the boolean operators 
'and' and 'not', wildcards (*), and phrase searches ("  ") 
(Kudos to Don Gilbert for the wais code modifications).
                                                 

Best of luck,


Dan Jacobson

danj@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu

Johns Hopkins University