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From: atulpule@sebastian.carleton.ca (Ajit Tulpule)
Subject: remote host check program
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:49:54 GMT



eepmatt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Matthew Friedman) writes, on
Subject: remote host check program

##The machine here has a program called check that runs in the background and
##tells you if any users contained in a .check list log inwhile you are on. It
##is limited to just checking the machine its running on, tho. Is there a
##version that can check remote machines as well?
##
##Thanks,
##Matt

I had written a C program which virtually does the same thing that "check"
seems to do. It however takes one name (as argument), and lets you know when
the person logs in. This process should run in the background. Although this
program is quite crude, it works ! I am sure that this program can be 
suitably altered to check remote machines (finger @hostname) and inform you
when the person named logs-in. The frequency of the poll can be altered
by changing the argument of "sleep". I am posting this progam here, and whoever
wishes to expand upon it may please do so.

/************************************************************/
#include <stdio.h>

main (argc, argv)
int  argc;
char *argv[];

{

char command[80];
FILE *fpr;
int num = 0;

strcpy (command, "\0");
strcat (command, "finger | grep ");
strcat (command, (argc == 1) ? "zzzz" : argv[1]);
strcat (command, " | wc -l > mer");

while (1) {
  system (command);
  if ((fpr = fopen("mer", "r")) == NULL) {
     printf ("\nThere's something wrong !   Exiting ...\n");
     fclose (fpr);
     exit (1);
     }
  fscanf (fpr, "%8d", &num);
  if (num > 0) {
     strcpy (command, "\0");
     strcat (command, "\007\007\007");
     strcat (command, (argc == 1) ? "zzzz" : argv[1]);
     strcat (command, " is here !\n\n");
     printf (command);
     exit (0);
     }
  sleep (30);
  }
}
/**********************************************************/

-----------------------------------------------
Ajit Tulpule

School of Business
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1S 5B6

email : atulpule@business.carleton.ca
-----------------------------------------------

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,can.general
From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: FREE worldwide network access in Canada??
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 01:54:08 GMT

In article <1dqfjfINNhrc@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>
>Hello all. I just got an email from someone I used to know on a local
>BBS who said that he just heard about a service that will be starting up
>in Canada called "Free Net". It's supposed to give "anyone with a
>computer and a modem" "free worldwide network access and services".... 
>by this I take it means internet access. Supposedly, the government and
>private industry is putting up 200 grands to get this going and it's
>FREE? This service is going to start off in BC, then it'll slowly be
>available across Canada... supposedly. So can anyone confirm this? Can
>anyone provide more details? Has anyone heard of this "Free Net" before?
>Sounds too good to be true??
>
>Thomas.
>


Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (MD FROST)
Subject: Satellite Weather Pictures
Organization: CompSci Dept., Aston University, U.K.
Distribution: world 
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:04:45 GMT


I remember some time ago seeing a post that included a script for downloading
daily weather pictures in the GIF format. Has anybody got a copy of this?

If so I would be grateful if you post it or mail it to me.
Also if you know of anywhere where I can get weather pictures (preferably
European ones) then please let me know.

Thanks in advance! Matthew

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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Computer crime archive
From: jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:21:13 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

Try anonymous FTP to: ftp.eff.org
From: pickerig@eee.bham.ac.uk (Mr. G. Pickering)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Automatic FTP get?
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:47:29 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, England
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Is there any way to get FTP to automatically drag files from a
particular site? I have got it to auto login, but can't see how
to "script" using it?

Many thanks,

Guy


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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,can.general
Subject: Re: FREE worldwide network access in Canada??
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:49:46 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <jstewart.721493440@cunews> jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:
>...
>I must emphasis that the Freenet is not intended to provide full Internet
>access.  The goal is to provide a useful resource to the entire community
>and so Internet access is limited to things which contribute to that goal.
>Typically this would include electronic mail (to anywhere in the Internet),
>Usenet news and limited telnet capability (generally only to other Freenet
>systems).  Services like ftp are unlikely to be provided.


Ah, but email and Usenet access is the basic ingredients of network
access that most people only need anyways, telnet being an extra even.
With ftp, you can always download files via email or Usenet so it's not
that important. Email and Usenet will keep most of us very happy
already. And I applaud those who are really putting an effort to promote
and advertise the benefits of networking by starting such a service.

Thomas.

Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: mjb@netcom.com (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: chat
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:35:33 GMT

In article <1dcms5INNb5q@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ychoi@unixg.ubc.ca (Yen Choi) writes:
>I was wondering, is there any way to have a real-time chat with another
>user throught internet? e.g  From University of BC to Univ of Toronto?
> 
>thanks
>

You could use the "talk" or "irc" commands. Check your man pages.

-- 

                                   - mjb -

                                mjb@netcom.com
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Automatic FTP get?
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:14:26 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

From article <MEF.92Nov10150829@grey.cs.washington.edu>, by mef@grey.cs.washington.edu (Marc Fiuczynski):
> You'll want to use the 'mirror' package for that. It allows you to
> maintain two directory hierarchies to be identical (using ftp), or you
> can just run it once to copy over the files.  

or you can just pipe commands into the ftp. I patched a version of ftp so that
it automatically logs in as anonymous.. you just then pipe it commands from
inside a shell. e.g. here is a script I use to get weather pictures from
a site on a daily basis and file them into directories by date - maintaining
a mirror is no good because I want to rename and resort the files at this end.

-bat.

#!/bin/sh
FNAME=`date -u | sed -e 's/^[A-Z][a-z]* //' | sed -e 's/[0-9]*:.*GMT //g' | sed -e 's/ /_/g' | sed -e 's/__/_0/'`
cd /aseg4/pete/weather/meteosat
ANONFTP_ADDRESS=pete@ohm.york.ac.uk
MACHINE=cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk
export ANONFTP_ADDRESS
(
echo binary
echo cd images/gifs
for i in *
do
echo get $i.gif $i/$FNAME.gif
done
echo quit
) | /aseg4/pete/nextbin/anonftp $MACHINE
exit 0
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From: howeg@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Monty Mole)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Service info page
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:23:16 GMT


There used to be a regularly posted internet services info page listing
loads of services available. I havent seen it for a while, could some please
post the most up to date one they have...

Monty.

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From: rcj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Craig Jamieson)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Email account
Summary: telnet yfn.ysu.edu
Keywords: yfn ysu
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:57:52 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England


try

telnet yfn.ysu.edu

and apply for an account on that Free Net
where you can send and receive e-mail...
From: craig@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Craig R. Sadler)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: audio irc ?
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:13:30 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services


 Does anyone know what the hardware/software requirements are
for the "experimental" new form of IRC.I heard about this on
the radio talk show Talk of the Nation (National Public Radio)
on Friday November 6. 
 Apparently voices are being digitized and sent `round the 
world on the Internet. Multiple users were joining in just like
the more familiar form of IRC that we all know, and some love...

Craig
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From: Orakel@sarpih.no (Jens Kr. Kirkeb)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Email account
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:31:57 GMT
Organization: stfold Ingenirhyskole


The postserver on our account doesn't work, and won't do for a while. 
Therefore, I can't get any Email. This is kind of a problem for me, so 
I wondered if it is possible to get an Email account elsewhere ? I use
the program 'PopMail' for MS-DOS.

Thanks.

Jens Kr. Kirkeb
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services,can.general
From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
Subject: Re: FREE worldwide network access in Canada??
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:55:01 GMT

In <721627372.10712@zooid.guild.org> silver.e@zooid.guild.org (Eric Silver) writes:
>This makes perfect elegant sense! Everyone in Canada knows that Victoria,
>Ninamo B.C., and Ottawa are the computing technical hubs of Canada! Just
>imagine, after Mother Gov and Lord Of the Loon the great Muldoon, gets 
>involved, hell we in the Toronto boonies might as well go back to quill 
>Only in Canada, would about 37% of the taxpayers, and 80% of Canada's 
>business (located within a 100 kilometer radius of Toronto) pay to 
>have a national network that is setup starting in another province or
>even worse, in Ottawa! I'm convinced, that people get exactly what they 
>deserve when they're the ones who elect governments in the first place! 
>But, then again, Canada is the only country in the world that has a
>RODENT as its national symbol!

No government is directly responsible for setting up Freenet's in Canada.  The
Freenet's will be independent, incorporated organizations run by a board of
directors elected by the members.  I can't speak for the Victoria Freenet,
but in Ottawa almost all the work that has gone into the project so far
has been done by people who have volunteered some of their own time to
contribute to the project.  We certainly hope that governments (municipal,
provincial and federal) will throw some money into the pot, after all many
government departments will be using the Freenets to make information 
available to the community.

If you want a Freenet in your area you'll have to go out and start selling
the idea to people.
-- 
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Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca  
"The average middle income family with two parents and children pays $2,945
more in Federal taxes than they would have under the tax policies in place
before the Tories first came to power in 1984."
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: mappler@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Matthew A Appler)
Subject: Simtel archives
Organization: /usr/users/user4/mappler/.organization
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:38:51 GMT

There is a file on the simtel archives that I would like to access.  I
have FTP capability though and have heard that there is a way to
access these via ftp.  Could someone please tell me how to do this?
Thank you very much,
  Matthew Appler
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From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: University of California Library Directoryh
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:18:43 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

In article <1dubjpINN42i@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> tvangod@ecst.csuchico.edu (Skud the Great) writes:
>Hello, im trying to access the University of California Library Directory,
>does anyone out there have the address to it?

melvyl.ucop.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: shugrue@spatial (Leon Shugrue)
Subject: Re: Satellite Weather Pictures
Organization: ANL
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:21:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.100445.16638@aston.ac.uk> frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (MD FROST) writes:
>
>I remember some time ago seeing a post that included a script for downloading
>daily weather pictures in the GIF format. Has anybody got a copy of this?
>
>If so I would be grateful if you post it or mail it to me.
>Also if you know of anywhere where I can get weather pictures (preferably
>European ones) then please let me know.
>
>Thanks in advance! Matthew
>
>-- 
>/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\
>| Matthew Frost - Comp. Sci. //  CDTV/   //  EMail: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk |
>| Aston University, U.K.   \X/   Amiga \X/      or: frostmd@cs.aston.ac.uk    |
>\-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/

I'd like the address, also. shugrue@spatial.eid.anl.gov
From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: America Online<>Internet
Date: 7 Nov 92 03:22:41 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

In article <Bx9EM4.3pH@iat.holonet.net> neta@iat.holonet.net (Gregory Giagnocavo) writes:
>Earlier note from  someone pointed out correctly that the spaces in a name
>on aol are not critical, as the mailer ignores them. 
>Mypoint that I was trying to make is tht when addressing mail _from_ the
>internet to aol, such as first last@aol.com, your internet mailer will not
>know what to do, since it is not aware that aol handles spaces by ignoring
>them, _in house_. If your recipient has an address with a space in it,
>well just don't include the space when addressing to aol.
> So again, double check 
>, since aol does allow screen names, unlike say, FidoNet.

I know a couple of people on AOL, and one of them has a space in the username.
When sending Internet e-mail to aol.com, ignore the space.  For example, if
the username is John Smith, the Internet mail should be addressed to:
johnsmith@aol.com    

Some Boston Computer Society members are on AOL and their usernames are 
BCS with their first name, (example:  BCS Jean.  The Internet address for
BCS Jean would be:  bcsjean@aol.com)




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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: jsav@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (lime jello)
Subject: alt.internet.services
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:02:57 GMT

	I will be losing internet access this december when I 
graduate.  Is there a place in or near N. Aurora where I can
annex.  I would like to be able to still send and receive 
email.
	Any information on how this can be achieved or where
I should go for help on this would be greatly appreciate.

thanks.
	jsav@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Re: Computer crime archive
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:53:15 GMT
Reply-To: brendan@cygnus.com
Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto CA; Phone +1 415 322 3811
In-reply-to: psr@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 92 13:28:12 GMT

In article <27879@castle.ed.ac.uk> psr@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul S Randal) writes:

   Does anyone know where there's an archive of computer crime
   related articles/papers/stories et al ??? (if one exists)

Check out the Computer Underground Digest archives.  They're housed on:

	* ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4) in /pub/cud
	* red.css.itd.umich.edu (141.211.182.91) in /cud
	* halcyon.com (192.135.191.2) in /pub/mirror/cud
	* ftp.ee.mu.oz.au (128.250.77.2) in /pub/text/CuD
	* nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) in pub/doc/cud

[All sites have the same files.]

Brendan
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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: Tihan.Seale@launchpad.unc.edu (Tihan Seale)
Subject: Financial market quoting service?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:35:11 GMT


Does anyone know of a service that quotes stock, options, or commodity
prices that I can access via modem or the internet? I know about
Compu$erve and the others, but I was hoping for something free or
significantly cheaper since I hope to access the info daily so that I can
paste it into a spreadsheet for analysis. It seems like there should be
-something- out there with all the other information availabe through the
internet. If you know of anything, please email me. 

TIHAN.SEALE@BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU Thanks. 



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Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
From: jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann)
Subject: Re: Financial market quoting service?
Reply-To: jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann)
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:10:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.163511.22623@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
Tihan.Seale@launchpad.unc.edu (Tihan Seale) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of a service that quotes stock, options, or
commodity
> prices that I can access via modem or the internet? I know about
> Compu$erve and the others, but I was hoping for something free or
> significantly cheaper since I hope to access the info daily so that I
can
> paste it into a spreadsheet for analysis.

I'd like to find a source for mutual fund prices as well!

For stocks:

> Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
> From: xcpslf@decsrv.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (stephen l favor)
> Subject: Re: Stocks and Commodities...
> Organization: Oryx Energy Co., Dallas, Texas.
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:23:15 GMT
> Lines: 18
> 
> In article <19vrp9INNrb9@uwm.edu>, yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A
Yanoff) writes:
> |> 
> |> Buying and selling?? Hmm....not for free...maybe on Dow Jones
service or 
> |> something.
> |> 
> |> But, here is a place to look for stock quotes:
> |> 
> |>  -Stock Market Report   telnet a2i.rahul.net or telnet
192.160.13.1
> |>     offers: Public access unix for a fee, market report is free!
(Login: guest)
> 
> Just ask Martin.Wong@eng.sun.com to out you on the quotedaily mailing
list.
> It's the same information.
From: silver.e@zooid.guild.org (Eric Silver)
Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
Subject: Free Worldwide access network in Canada ??
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:46:54 GMT

A few typos took place in my last posted article;
The corrected version is below;

This makes perfect elegant sense! Everyone in Canada knows that Victoria,
Ninamo B.C., and Ottawa are the computing technical hubs of Canada! Just
imagine, after Mother Gov and Lord Of the Loon the great Muldoon, gets
involved, hell we in the Toronto boonies might as well go back to quill
pens and carrier pidgeons. Only in Canada, would about 37% of the 
taxpayers, and 80% of Canada's business (located within a 100 kilometer 
radius of Toronto) pay to have a national network that is setup, starting 
in another province or even worse, in Ottawa! I'm convinced, that people 
get exactly what they deserve when they're the ones who elect governments 
in the first place! But, then again, Canada is the only country in the world 
that has a RODENT as its national symbol!

Eric Silver - York, Upper Canada.

York is Toronto for all youse people :-)
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