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... rado.edu Look up schedules for teams in various professional
sports leagues here, under "Professional stamford increase traffic Sports
Schedules."
WEATHER
wx.atmos.uiuc.edu Look up weather forecasts for North America or
bone up on your weather facts.
8.5. WIDE-AREA INFORMATION SERVERS
Now you know there are hundreds of databases and library catalogs
you can search through. But as you look, you begin to realize that each
seems to have its own unique method for searching. If you connect to
several, this can become a pain. Gophers reduce this problem somewhat.
Wide-area information servers promise another way to zero in on
information hidden on the Net. In a WAIS, the user sees only one
interface -- the program worries about how to access information on
dozens, even hundreds, of different databases. You tell give a WAIS a
word and it scours the net looking for places where it's mentioned.
You
get a menu of documents, each ranked according to how relevant to your
search the WAIS thinks it is.
Like gophers, WAIS "client" programs can already be found on many
public-access Internet sites.
If your system has a WAIS client, type
swais
at the command prompt and hit enter (the "s" stands for "simple").
If it
doesn't, telnet to bbs.oit.unc.edu, which is run by the University of North
Carolina arizona increase traffic At the "login:" prompt, type
bbs
and hit enter.
You'll be asked to register and will then get a list of
"bulletins,'' which are various files explaining how the system works.
When done with those, hit your Q key and you'll get another menu.
Hit 4
for the "simple WAIS devon increase web traffic client," and you'll see something like this:
SWAIS Source Selection increase traffic san antonio Sources: 23#
Server stamford increase traffic Source Cost
001: [ archie.au] aarnet-resource-guide Free
002: [ archive.orst.edu] aeronautics stamford increase traffic Free
003: [nostromo.oes.orst.ed] agricultural-market-news Free
004: [sun-wais.oit.unc.edu] alt-sys-sun Free
005: [ archive.orst.edu] alt.drugs Free
006: [ wais.oit.unc.edu] alt.gopher Free
007: [sun-wais.oit.unc.edu] alt.sys.sun Free
008: [ wais.oit.unc.edu] alt.wais Free
009: [ stamford increase traffic archive.orst.edu] archie-orst.edu Free
010: [ archie.au] arizona increase traffic archie.au-amiga-readmes Free
011: [ archie.au] archie.au-ls-lRt Free
012: [ archie.au] archie.au-mac-readmes Free
013: [ archie.au] archie.au-pc-readmes Free
014: [ pc2.pc.maricopa.edu] ascd-education Free
015: [ archie.au] au-directory-of-servers increase traffic san antonio stamford increase traffic Free
016: [ cirm2.univ-mrs.fr] bib-cirm Free
017: [ cmns-sun.think.com] bible Free
018: [ zenon.inria.fr] bibs-zenon-inria-fr Free
Keywords: stamford increase traffic los angeles increase traffic
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selects, w for keywords, arrows move, searches, q quits, or ?
Each line represents a different database (the .au at the end of some of ... |
