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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 10:16:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>

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AskERIC now provides a way for you to access various AskERIC services
from a remote location.  Via Gopher and Anonymous FTP, you may
download files from our ericir.syr.edu host to your own computer.
The following directions tell you how to access these services.

The original function of AskERIC will also remain: to provide a
personalized question-answering, help and referral service for K-12
teachers, school librarians, and administrators. If you have
questions about K-12 education, learning, teaching, information
technology, educational administration - AskERIC.

Recently, many educators have been asking us for information on year
round schools, school-based management, and total quality managment.
All three of these questions have answers in our Minisearch file on
our FTP/Gopher site.  You'll also find over 100 other bibliographic
searches in that directory.  And don't forget to look at our Q/A
directory of often-asked questions.


File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to move a file from one
computer to another, even if the two computers have different
operating systems.  The files may take any form: text, data,
software, etc.  Users log into the "remote host" computer, allowing
them to transfer the files from the remote host computer to
themselves.  Several hosts provide the username "anonymous" for FTP
retrieval, allowing anyone access to the files.  Our AskERIC host
name is: ericir.syr.edu.

To use FTP to locate the AskERIC site:

1. Log into your local host, and invoke the FTP program.
2. Write ericir.syr.edu as the remote host computer name.
3. The username is: anonymnous
4. The password is your email username (e.g. tomt@machine.edu)

In the Pub directory you will find the following:

Q&A - a directory of frequently-asked questions and answers.

MiniSearches - a directory of ERIC Silver Platter searches on
selected topics.

Digests_HelpSheets - selected ERIC Digests and help sheets

LM_NET - archives of the LM_NET listserv (school librarian listserv)



Gopher

Gopher works on a Client/Server model (or method). You are the
client; the remote host computer is the server.  To use Gopher, you
can use Gopher software, or an Internet access to Gopher (see
directions below).  A Gopher client (software) is loaded into a
user's computer.  This Gopher software contacts a variety of Gopher
servers worldwide. The Gopher client (software) handles all details
of the user interface and adds additional features such as place
markers, and image decoding.


Gopher servers are installed in remote computers and listen/wait for
users (called clients). They do nothing until contacted by a client
and asked for information. This means that while a Gopher site may
have information it shares via gopher (such as ericir.syr.edu), it
may not (probably won't) have the software needed to acces itself.
You have to provide your own Gopher software ( or use the Internet
access point listed below).

Client (user) software is available for Macintoshes, PC's, NeXT's, X
Windows, and UNIX terminals from anonymous FTP (described above) from
the host boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory /pub/gopher.

** If you have Gopher:
1. Gopher to ericir.syr.edu
2. Enter Port # 70

** To Telnet to a Gopher client on the Internet:
1. Telnet to hafnhaf.micro.umn.edu

2. Access the National Gopher System
3. AskERIC is in the following directory:
Other Gopher and Information Servers/
North America/
USA/
General/
AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/


For more informtion about Gopher, contact:

Internet Gopher Team
132 Shepherd labs
100 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: +1 612 625-1300
Internet: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu


We'd really like to hear from you if you use our Gopher/FTP site.
Send us a message at: askeric@ericir.syr.edu

---
Andy Abrahamson
Richard Tkachuck
AskERIC Network Information Specialists
Internet: askeric@ericir.syr.edu

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources
030 Huntington Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-2340
Voice: (315) 443-9114
Fax:   (315) 443-5448

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