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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:16:55 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      Libsoft Information (fwd)

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:28:13 CDT
From: Gord Nickerson <35007_321@uwovax.uwo.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@uhupvm1.bitnet>
Subject: Libsoft Information

For the convience of your readers here is some information on the
LIBrary SOFTware archive site.

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Welcome to the LIBrary SOFTware Archives of the School of Library and
Information Science at the University of Western Ontario (HYDRA.UWO.CA)

Your moderator is Gord Nickerson.                    Updated Sept 3 1992


LIBSOFT contains programs of interest to librarians. File descriptions are in
the file INDEX.TXT which you should read before transferring files. This
site does not contain any general software (word processors, databases, etc)
as they are easily obtainable from the archives at simtel or its mirrors
such as wuarchive.wustl.edu. LIBSOFT also has files to help librarians make
use of the Internet.

LIBSOFT also maintains updates to Peter Scott's hypertext database
in the \HYTELNET directory. Changes that occur between releases of
HYTELNET versions are kept as text files with an extension of .TXT

Please login as user AMONYMOUS and use your e-mail address as a password. This
is a courtesy to the system manager who tracks these things.

Please do not access this site during local working hours (9-5) as it increases
the load on the machine. Remember, anonymous FTP is a privledge - not a right.
Hydra is located in the EDT.

Text (ASCII) files generally have the extension .TXT and can be transferred with
the GET filename command.

All program (binary) files have extensions .ZIP, .EXE or .COM and should have
the transfer type set to binary (TYPE BINARY) before transferring with the
GET filename command. Files with .EXE or .COM are self-extracting archives.
After downloading the file to your PC just type the filename to extract all the
compressed files. .ZIP files require the PKUNZIP program for extraction.

NOTE: WordPerfect files (.wp5) must have the file mode set to binary before
transferring.

Direct suggestions, comments,  etc to:


Gord Nickerson
Research Coordinator
Advancement Services
University of Western Ontario
email: NICKERSO@UWOVAX.UWO.CA


If you have written a useful program for librarians or have used some
public domain or shareware program specifically designed for libraries
and would like to share it with others just drop me a line and I shall
add it to the archives.

Currently the archive is slanted towards MS-DOS. However more Mac files
may be added in the future. Many files are in WordPerfect 5.1 format but
for the convenience of users I will try and provide ASCII versions as well.


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 |        | Gord Nickerson, Research Coordinator
 |   (*)(*) University of Western Ontario
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