brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (03/13/91)
All but one of our faculty has a marked apathy towards being
associated with Unix at all (we were an all-VMS shop 2 years ago). As
a result, I do as many things as I can to sell my systems with the
students, since they aren't even told of their existance in nearly any
class. [I tally my success by how many people I can get to be
comfortable with using Emacs on a regular basis. Hehe.]
Anyway, I'm starting to write a small booklet about the various
utilities & information available via our Internet link. I want to
mentioning email, talk, school libraries, the archie ftp server,
ftp in general, mailing lists, news, finger, whois, and considering
including IRC. (Anything I missed?)
I was wondering if anyone's ever written up something like this, for
an undergraduate audience? (aka most of them haven't the slightest
idea what the network is, but would get into it if they were given the
right information)
I'm not looking to duplicate, I simply need some idea on how to
structure this kind of thing. Trying to present this much information
in a format that's easy to read and at the same time provides a
semi-tutorial hasn't been the easiest thing to devise.
Any and all help, suggestions, pointers, whatever, are MORE than
welcome.
Also any suggestions on how people wish *they* had been introduced to
all of this are welcome.
Thanks.
Brendan
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Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone