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NOAO Net News (1Sep93)
(from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 35, 1 September 1993)

NOAO is currently making some information available through three of
the most popular Internet mechanisms. Anonymous FTP is available to
orion.tuc.noao.edu (KPNO archives), gemini.tuc.noao.edu (NOAO
archives), tucana.tuc.noao.edu (IRAF archives), ctios1.ctio.noao.edu
(CTIO archives), robur.tuc.noao.edu (Solar and GONG archives), and
pandora.tuc.noao.edu (preprint and catalog archives); programs,
documents, manuals, etc., have been available this way for some time.
We also have a gopher server on gopher.noao.edu; this is primarily used
by the Gemini Project, but offerings through this portal are likely to
increase. Past issues of the NOAO Newsletter are available for
searching via WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) on
pandora.tuc.noao.edu.

We are also considering connecting to the World Wide Web. If you are
not familiar with WWW, it is the fastest growing information server,
with uncountable documents, images, sounds, movies, etc., linked
together throughout the Internet world. With X windows, you can explore
this world comfortably with the program "xmosaic," available
precompiled for a number of machines by anonymous FTP from
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the Mosaic/xmosaic-binaries (source is available
as well). There are also some VT100 WWW browsers, though documents with
embedded images aren't displayed to best advantage this way.

Meanwhile you will notice that this Newsletter issue is attempting to
make our FTP archives more visible to you, with entries near the end of
each section summarizing the location of the FTP archives for that
division. As part of this effort, many of the FTP archives have been
restructured in a more organized fashion. Reorganization may continue,
but hopefully not for long, as we lean toward a more sophisticated
information provider. All of the FTP archives, except the Solar ones,
are on Sun servers, so users should log in as anonymous and use their
e-mail address as the password. For the Solar archives, which are on a
VAX, log in as anonftp with the password guest.

We would appreciate any words you wish to send our way about the
preferred information providers, and, perhaps more importantly, what
information you would like to see us provide. Please send your comments
to rwolff@noao.edu or jbarnes@noao.edu.

Richard Wolff, Jeannette Barnes

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