I clicked on an e-mail link, and nothing happened. This usually indicates that the computer you're using does not have e-mail software installed. A good, free e-mail program is Eudora Light . An e-mail client is also availible with the full Netscape Communicator package , or in some distributions of MicroSoft's Internet Explorer . Dedicated ERes stations in both McHenry Library and the Science Library do not have e-mail software installed on them due to security restrictions mandated by how those particular machines were funded.
Web browsers can view certain file types in-line , without any help from other programs.
Some browsers, such as Lynx, can only view HTML and plain text files. In both the libraries, we have a standard set of document viewers installed on our ERes workstations. We like to think that this set covers all of the file types availible through the ERes system. Only the latter two are availible for free. PostScript files are almost exactly the same as PDF files, and are useful for a lot of the same reasons.