From: Charlotte Mooers To: resource-guide: ; cc: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET Subject: AN-92-5 A new version of the Resource Guide Reply-to: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:19:21 -0500 Sender: nnsc@NNSC.NSF.NET ANNOUNCEMENT 92-5 This message is being sent to the FTP, PostScript and Plain Text mailing lists, although the news under part (2) applies ONLY to the PostScript and Plain Text lists, and news under part (3) applies ONLY to the FTP list. 1) Update news. Finally, we are up to date. All updates and new entries have been incorporated in a new paper version of the Internet Resource Guide is currently at the printer. We will begin next week to send out copies to people who have already ordered them. The November 1992 version has seven chapters, divided into a total of 150 sections. Each section contains an individual entry. Seventy entries were updated in 1992 and 14 are new since November 1991; the remaining 66, which date from before November 1991, are "old". We expect to get them updated soon. We also hope to get many new entries in the near future. If you know of a resource that we should list, please send an email message to "resource-guide@nnsc.nsf.net", and we will send a template and instructions for preparing the entry. The front matter is new, and so are the "intro" files for the seven chapters. The date for each entry now appears at the end of each section title in each of the "intro" files, as well as in the footer line in the entry itself. 2) For people on the PostScript and Plain Text mailing lists: The files in the resource-guide directory on nnsc.nsf.net fully reflect the new version. Some of the new and updated entries have already been distributed to the PostScript and Plain Text mailing lists. We will begin distributing the rest of the files immediately: first an informal "index-resource-guide" file that lists ALL the files (including the tarred and compressed files for FTP), then the entries, new and updated, that have not yet distributed, and finally the new front matter and intro files. As we noted in AN-92-3 and AN-92-3A, we made a change in the way that we send out PostScript files. Internet Resource Guide .ps entries were changed to have "---cut-here---" lines. In the interest of consistency, we have now added a "---cut-here---" line at the beginning of the .txt entries that are distributed through the Resource Guide mailing lists. 3) For people on the FTP mailing list: Give the command "ftp nnsc.nsf.net". Login as "anonymous" with password "guest". Give the command "cd resource-guide". The tarred and compressed files have all been updated. The simplest way to update your set of resource-guide files is to ftp the tarred and compressed version of the entire set, in either PostScript or Text form: resource-guide.ps.tar.Z [These contain the entire Guide, resource-guide.txt.tar.Z including the Front Matter.] template.txt If you want to get individual chapters, or just the changes that have been made in each chapter, you can do that, also. For each of the seven chapters, 1-6 and M, there is a set of tarred and compressed files in the "resource-guide" directory, for example: chapter1-changes-ps.tar.Z chapter1-changes-txt.tar.Z chapter1-ps.tar.Z chapter1-txt.tar.Z The "changes" files contain only the files that were changed in 1992 and December 1991. Other files in the resource-guide directory are: README help index-resource-guide ls-lsR overview privacy-accuracy resource-guide-help resource-guide.ps.tar.Z [These contain the entire Guide, resource-guide.txt.tar.Z including the Front Matter.] template.txt wholeguide.txt.Z [This contains the Text version of the Guide, compressed but not tarred.] To get files from the "front-matter" subdirectory, give the command "cd front-matter": copyright.ps copyright.txt cover.ps cover.txt intro.ps intro.txt toc.ps toc.txt To return to the "resource-guide" directory, " cd .." Then, if you want the "announce" files, "cd announce" announce/an-92-1.txt announce/an-92-2.txt announce/an-92-3.txt announce/an-92-3a.txt announce/an-92-4.txt announce/an-92-5.txt [This file]