Internet Access

World Wide Web Access

Michael Caprio
Mississippi State University

The Resistant Pest Management (RPM) Newsletter is now available over the internet as a world-wide-web hypertext document. This version of the RPM newsletter retains most formatting elements of the hard copy version, as well as figures and tables. Hypertext links ease movement between the table of contents and individual articles. This version of the newsletter is available from the Mississippi State University web server (URL http://www.msstate.edu).

To view the newsletter, a WWW browser, such as Mosaic, Cello, Lynx, MacWeb, or WinWeb is required. It is not feasible in a short space to explain the use and installation of such programs (there are books dedicated to this purpose). The most commonly used program, Mosaic, is available free from the NCSA for the X-windows, Macintosh and Windows operating environments, and may be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu or from sunsite.unc.edu (the directory at the latter site is: pub/packages/infosystems/www/clients/WinMosiac [ or MacMosiac for Macintosh users] directory). Windows users will also need to get the win32s.zip file, which will update their windows system. For those willing to sort out the details, access to the internet over phone lines can be achieved with the trumpet winsock shareware package, available as the file winsock.zip from the previous ftp sites in the socket directory. OS/2 users should be aware that the latest versions of Mosaic are not compatible with winos2, and they should use alternatives such as WinWeb, Cello, or earlier versions of NCSA Mosaic. Several companies are producing all-in-one solutions for internet connections (NetManage's Internet Chameleon and O'Reilly and Spry's Internet in a Box are shipping), and the next releases of OS/2 and Windows are both rumored to include software to enable internet access.

The Resistant Pest Management Newsletter is now available via E-mail (as well as anonymous ftp and finger). Choose one of 3 different ways to download the Newsletter:

(1) via E-mail (aka ftpmail):

Address your E-mail to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. The body of the message should consist of only ftp commands - type:

"connect ftp.cicp.vt.edu chdir pub/cicp/rpmnews get rpmnews bye"

The ftpmail server decwrl.dec.com is very busy; allow up to 24 hours for delivery, or use a different ftpmail server if you know of one. You will receive the Newsletter just like regular E-mail.

(2) finger.

Type: "finger rpmnews@ftp.cicp.vt.edu / more" to view the document onscreen with page pauses or Type: "finger rpmnews@ftp.cicp.vt.edu filename" to write contents to a filename you make up in place of filename.

(3) anonymous ftp.

Type: "ftp ftp.cicp.vt.edu" Name: type "anonymous" Password: type your E-mail address then type "cd pub/cicp/rpmnews" to change to the news directory. type "get rpmnews" to transfer the RPM Newsletter to your host. type "bye" to exit.

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