From: alpet@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alex Petrushko)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Subject: FTP for people with non-FTP machines
Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:03:28 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Somebody posted gif to this group, then somebody complained and then Tara, I think,
wrote that she doesn't have FTP access, so I decided to post this list.
As you can see, in paragraph 11, there is an explanation of how to get stuff
from the FTP sites if you don't have FTP access. The rest of the list is very
helpful too -- I started from it when I discovered Internet.

Alex. 


There are many sources of information on Internet.  The following list was
taken from an article by Joe Abernathy (edtjda@chron.com) in the November
issue of Science PROBE.  It includes several sources of information.

  1. Robert Elton Maas of Stanford, CA, maintains a list of documents on
     how to find indexes to various Internet services.  To get MaasIndex,
     send e-mail to fileserv@shsu.edu with a line in the body saying
          SENDME MaasInfo.TopIndex*

  2. Get the Internet Resource Guide by sending mail to
     info-server@nnsc.nsf.net with the following in the body:
          Request: resource-guide
          Topic: help
          Request: end

  3. Get the Internet list of mailing lists by sending e-mail to
     mail-server@nisc.sri.com with a line as follows:
          send netinfo/interest-groups
     This is *very* long.

  4. To locate system manager, you can send mail to
          service@nic.ddn.mil
     with
          WHOIS <name>
     as the subject line.  You can also telnet directly to nic.ddn.mil
     and run WHOIS.

  5. To get someone's e-mail address, send e-mail to
     mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu, with
          send usenet-addresses/<name>
     where you replace "<name>" with the userid or real name of the
     person you're trying to find.  For those of you who have been frustrated
     finding users with nic.ddn.mil's WHOIS database, this is wonderful.

  6. Get info on BITNIC, the Bitnet Network Information Center by sending
     mail to listserv@bitnic.bitnet with the line
          help

  7. Elliot Parker maintains a computer network bibliography.  Get it by
     sending mail to comserve@rpiecs.bitnet with a message body saying:
          send compunet biblio

  8. Get the "Mining the Internet" tutorial from U of CA by sending request
     to Gee Lee (gblee@ucdavis.edu).

  9. For a geographic name server, telnet to martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000.

 10. For the National Weather Service, telnet to 141.212.196.79 3000.

 11. For FTP services for non FTP users, send mail with the word HELP to
     FTPMAIL@DECWRL.DEC.COM.

This is only a partial list, but includes the major items.  For more
information, see the November issue of SciencePROBE.  I haven't tried
all of them, but the ones I have (2-7 and 11) work wonderfully.  Number
5 is a resource that I've been looking for for a long time.



-- 
"I know that I work for Time-Warner, one of the main purveyors of evil
 in the universe.  The way I see it, sometimes you have to rot the
 infrastructure from within." -Al Jourgensen

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