http://gandalf/j/Internet/Dokumente/Gopher/13.htm (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 15:37:08 EST
Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
From: Richard Smith <smithr@clp2.clpgh.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
SUBJECT TREES AND STUDY CARRELS
There are other places in Gopherspace that organize Gophers by
disciplines--usually the information is organized by subject or by
a combination of names. If only the world was perfect and we all
used the same naming scheme. Oh well.
If you search Veronica with the word "subject," you'll get an
enormous amount of information--most of which will be irrelevant.
I've searched Veronica for you, and found that what we _really_
want to look for is "subject tree". Here's what you get:
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Search gopherspace at NYSERNet: subject tree -t1
--> 1. Mathematics Subject Tree/
2. Subject tree (based on UDC)/
3. Subject Tree/
4. Subject tree (based on UDC)//
5. Subject Tree Internet Resources @ Other Gophers/
6. Subject Tree Internet Resources @ VSU Gopher/
7. BUBL Subject Tree, Other Subject Trees, Gopher Jewels/
8. BUBL Subject Tree (under construction)/
9. Subject Tree/
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
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In this Veronica search, there is an implied "and" when I use the
phrase "subject tree". This means that Veronica will return any
item with the words "subject" and "tree" in it.
I've also learned from my experience searching on the word
"discipline" that what I really want are directories, not text
files or other Gopher items. Thus I limit my search by using
"-t1", which indicates I want only directories.
Let's look at number five " 5. Subject Tree Internet Resources @
Other Gophers/ ".
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Subject Tree Internet Resources @ Other Gophers
--> 1. Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.)/
2. Resources by Subject (from Univ. of California)/
3. Subject Tree - sunet.se/
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
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We'll continue by selecting number one.
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.)
--> 1. About this collection of Internet resources.
2. More about this collection of Internet resources/
3. Aerospace/
4. Agriculture and Forestry/
5. Anthropology and Culture/
6. Arts/
7. Astronomy and Astrophysics/
8. Biology/
9. Census/
10. Chemistry/
11. Computer Networks and Internet Resource Guides/
12. Computing/
13. Economics and Business/
14. Education/
15. Engineering/
16. Environment and Ecology/
17. Geography/
18. Geology and Geophysics/
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
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Selecting number one gives use information about this collection of
Internet Resources.
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These directories contain links to resources organized by subject
matter. The resources themselves are scattered all over the
Internet. They may be unavailable at any time due to many factors
beyond our control.
The selection of resources you see here is based on several
similar collections of such links maintained on Gopher servers at
the following places:
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN, flubber.ciesin.org)
Mass. General Hospital, Harvard University
(weeds.mgh.harvard.edu)
North Carolina State University (dewey.lib.ncsu.edu)
SLU, Sweden (pinus.slu.se)
SUNET, Sweden (sunic.sunet.se)
Texas A&M University (tamuts.tamu.edu)
The WELL (nkosi.well.sf.ca.ua)
University of Nevada at Reno (hunter.unr.edu)
UCSC InfoSlug (scilibx.ucsc.edu)
... plus a few specialized collections from other places.
Once a week we merge selected directories of links at these
institutions into our own collections of links. To see how we do
this, look in the subdirectory "More about this collection of
Internet resources".
If you know of other collections of Internet resources organized
by subject matter which we should merge in a similar fashion,
please send mail to "riceinfo@rice.edu".
In the future we plan to add our own local resources to these
menus. If you have information in any of these subject areas
which you would like to make available, please send mail to
"riceinfo@rice.edu".
-- Prentiss Riddle (riddle@rice.edu)
9/7/93
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Well let's try to get some information. I'll go down a page and
select number thirty-six "36. Weather, Climate and Meteorology/".
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Information by Subject Area (from RiceInfo, Rice Univ.)
--> 19. Government, Political Science and Law/
20. Grants, Scholarships and Funding/
21. History/
22. Language and Linguistics/
23. Library and Information Science/
24. Literature, Electronic Books and Journals/
25. Mathematics/
26. Medicine and Health/
27. Military Science/
28. Music/
29. News and Journalism/
30. Oceanography/
31. Physics/
32. Reference/
33. Religion and Philosophy/
34. Sociology and Psychology/
35. Travel/
36. Weather, Climate and Meteorology/
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 2/2
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Weather, Climate and Meteorology
--> 1. About this directory.
2. A Source of Meteorological Data FAQ.
3. Austin, Texas Forecast.
4. Australian Weather Forecasts <TEL>
5. Climate Adaption News/
6. Climate Ecosystem Dynamics/
7. Climatic Perspectives/
8. Current Weather Forecasts/
9. Current Weather Images/
10. DOE Climate Data <?>
11. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Forecast.
12. Delta/
13. Detailed Colorado Weather/
14. ECIX Climate Digest/
15. ECO/
16. Environmental & Climate Information Exchange Newsletter/
17. HotNews/
18. Houston, Texas Forecast.
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
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This directory contains weather information. There are several
types of Gopher items on this menu; text is represented by the
period "." at the end of an item, and Telnet items by <TEL>.
(Selecting this will take you to another system where you may be
able to gain remote access.) Index-search server items are
represented by a question mark <?> at the end. Let's check out
number eight "8. Current Weather Forecasts/".
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Current Weather Forecasts
--> 1. Chilean Weather Forecasts (gopher in Spanish)/
2. Colorado Weather Forecasts/
3. National Weather Service forecasts for Midwest USA <?>
4. US City and Oregon Weather Forecasts/
5. University of Michigan Weather <TEL>
6. Weather Server @ Thinking Machines <?>
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
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We'll try an index-search server. Number six "6. Weather Server
@ Thinking Machines <?>" will work. Thinking machines has a lot to
do with WAIS, so I'll bet this is a WAIS database and search
engine. I'll search for the word "Pittsburgh".
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+---------------------------------------+
| Weather Server @ Thinking Machines
|
| Words to search for pittsburgh
|
| [Cancel ^G] [Accept - Enter]
|
+---------------------------------------+
Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
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Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
Weather Server @ Thinking Machines: pittsburgh
--> 1. Pittsburgh-PA.txt.
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Looks like I'm in luck. My search retrieves one file from the
Weather Server at Thinking Machines, and I'll select this file.
The ".txt" usually means that it's an acsii text file.
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"/tmp/gopheCAAa02270" may be a binary file. Continue?
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Argh!!! It isn't a plain text file! A binary file can be a
graphics file, sound file, data file, word processing file or other
type of file. In most cases, extensions of "txt" or "doc" mean
plain ascii text, but that isn't true of this file. As you can
see, the Internet world, like the real world, is not perfect!
The Gopher client I'm using can't read binary files. There are
Gopher clients that can, and we'll describe some later. I've found
that many binary files that have characters in them that my Gopher
client can't read can be read by my e-mail program. The text of
these files probably has a few non ascii characters left in it from
the word processing program that was used to create it. I'll
gamble and mail this file to myself.
Here's the file from my e-mail program. There are one or two
characters that weren't ascii.
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>From rjs@icarus.lis.pitt.edu Tue Oct 12 09:20:57 1993
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 93 11:13:53 EDT
From: rjs@icarus.lis.pitt.edu
To: rjs@lis.pitt.edu
Subject: Pittsburgh-PA.txt
Weather Conditions at 5 AM EDT on 10 OCT 93 for Pittsburgh PA.
Temp(F) Humidity(%) Wind(mph) Pressure(in) Weather
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39 57% NORTH at 13 30.09 Overcast
PITTSBURGH METROPOLITAN AREA FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1059 AM EDT SAT OCT 9 1993
THIS AFTERNOON...CLOUDY AND BREEZY WITH SHOWERS. A THUNDERSTORM
ALSO POSSIBLE. TURNING COOLER WITH HIGH 60 TO 65. WIND SOUTHWEST 15
TO 25 MPH BECOMING NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTY.
TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY AND BRISK WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
EVENING SHOWERS. LOW NEAR 40. WIND NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH.
SUNDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY AND QUITE COOL. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S.
ROR
EXTENDED FORECAST...
MONDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY AND COOL. LOWS 25 TO 35. HIGHS IN THE 50S.
TUESDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. LOWS IN THE 30S. HIGHS IN 50S TO LOWER 60S.
WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. LOWS IN THE 30S TO LOWER 40S. HIGHS IN THE
50S TO LOWER 60S.
REILLY
THE 6 TO 10 DAY OUTLOOK FOR THURSDAY OCTOBER 14 THRU MONDAY
OCTOBER 18 CALLS FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND NEAR NORMAL
PRECIPITATION.
NORMAL LOWS FOR THE PERIOD RANGE FROM 46 TO 52 AND NORMAL HIGHS
RANGE FROM 57 TO 63. NORMAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE ABOUT FOUR TENTHS
/.40/ OF AN INCH.
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Well, we can get the local or worldwide weather report from Gopher.
I can add this to my bookmark if I would like this information
daily. Certainly useful for those frequent travelers.
Your assignment is to look up the words "study carrels" and see how
much they differ from "subject trees" and "disciplines".
Richard J. Smith
smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Jim Gerland
gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
Manager, Network User Support Services
.