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DIGITAL INTERNAL: World-Wide Web: What you need and where to find it
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World-Wide Web is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative
working to give easy, world-wide access to information via hytertext
servers. Hypertext is an information presentation methodology which allows
highlighted words(or links) to point to other hypertext documents. The
links are followed by pointing to the link and clicking, if you have a
PC or workstation or using the terminal cursor keys. Documents may
contain text, images, video, audio or postscript. The thing that
makes World-Wide Web so powerful is that the servers know how to deal
with the Internet and can retrieve documents from anywhere in the world.
World-Wide Web was developed primarily at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory. World-Wide Web is made up of servers and browsers
(or clients). Servers are required if you want to set up a repository of
hypertext documents for others to access. If you simply want to explore
the Web, you only need a browser and TCP/IP connectivity.
All of the pointers below are for kits which have been altered to allow
use through the firewall and CANNOT be used by customers. See the
customer version of "World-Wide Web Tips" for where to locate browsers
which can be used outside of Digital.
World-Wide Web Browsers: Mosaic
The most popular and feature-rich viewer is Mosaic, developed by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-
Champaign, IL. There are versions for workstations running Motif, PCs
running Windows and Macintoshs. Check the directory for any instructions
on installation, esp for Windows and the Macintosh version. xv is not
required but is useful for viewing images in documents and can be copied
from the same directories.
MIPS/ULTRIX: FTP: easynet.crl.dec.com:/dec/www/bin.mips/Mosaic.Z
DECnet: crl::/dec/www/bin.mips/Mosaic.Z
ALPHA/OSF: FTP: easynet.crl.dec.com:/dec/www/bin.alpha/Mosaic.Z
DECnet: crl::/dec/www/bin.alpha/Mosaic.Z
VAX/VMS: SWSCIM::AD$PUBLIC:XMOSAIC-VMS-UCX.README
(UCX required) SWSCIM::AD$PUBLIC:XMOSAIC-VMS-UCX.BCK
PC/Windows: SDTAD::"/pub/kits/Windows_Client//dwmos10.zip"
Macintosh: SDTAD::"/pub/kits/Mac/NCSAMosaicMac.B2.sit.hqx"
Problems should be reported in the SOFBAS::INTERNET_TOOLS notesfile.
World-Wide Web Browsers: Lynx
If you don't have a workstation, this seems to be the most popular/easiest
to use. UCX is required on VMS systems. Lynx is also on CRL:: for ULTRIX
and OSF/1. Note that images will NOT be displayed on terminals. Lynx
kits can be found in TECO::SYS$PUBLIC:. Here are the file names and the
operating environments they support:
LYNX-VAX.EXE OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2 w UCX 2.0D
LYNX-AXP.EXE OpenVMS AXP V1.5 w UCX 3.0?
LYNX-MIPS. MIPS/Ultrix V4.3
LYNX-ALPHA. AXP/OSF/1 V1.3
DIGITAL INTERNAL: World-Wide Web: What you need and where to find it
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Where to find things: A Starting Point
There are literally hundreds of servers, but here are some places to
start. Mosiac provides an excellent one on the Navigate pull-down.
Pull down the menu and select "Internet Starting Points". For those
using Lynx, type i for index to find a list of servers. To view the
documents below, use the following URLs(Universal Resource Locator).
The button in Mosaic is "open" and from Lynx, press the key "g".
INTERNAL:
http://www.crl.dec.com/Digital/home.html
Digital's INTERNAL Home Page
http://www.bb.dec.com/ipeasynet/services/www/dec-www-servers.html
Internal WWW Servers; a list of Digital Internal Use Only Servers
http://src-www.pa.dec.com/maps/palo-alto/palo-alto-coffee.html
Palo Alto Campus Map of coffee shops and all Digital's
facilities in Palo Alto
http://www.crl.dec.com/Digital/WhatsNew.html
What's New In The Web INSIDE Digital
http://src-www.pa.dec.com:8002/elf/gateway
WWW ELF Gateway; ELF from your WWW browser
EXTERNAL
http://www.dec.com/info.html
Digital's WWW information center for customers - has just about
everything that is public for customers that Russ Jones can get
ahold of.
http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html
GNN Home Page; GNN is Global Network Navigator, a free magazine on
the Internet by O'Reilly and Assoc.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Server.html
External WWW servers; long list from CERN of every known server.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html
UNC's server; includes many government servers, including NII.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/toc.html
Table of contents for the National Information Infrastructure
document, for those who don't want to wait for the VERY large image
which you get when you go in through the UNC home page.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html
What's New with Mosaic
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Overview.html
Tools for WWW providers
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/hypertext/docs/bdgtii/bdgtti-1.02_toc.html
Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet - Table of Contents
When you find documents you want to remember, you can add them to your
"hotlist" by choosing the hotlist item on the Navigate pull-down menu
from Mosaic or type a for adding it to your bookmark file in Lynx.
The People Who "Made it Happen"
Thanks to Win Treese (CRL), Andy Payne (CRL), Jim Gettys (CRL), Brian
Reid (NSL), Richard Schedler (SRC), Frank Wortner (NYO), Mark Shand (PRL),
Les Carleton (CSC/UK), Glenn Trewitt (NSL), Russ Jones (IMC), Ralph
James (SDT), Loren Konkus (SDT), Danny Mayer for the internal kits
and servers.
World-Wide Web: What you need and where to find it
========================================================================
World-Wide Web is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative
working to give easy, world-wide access to information via hytertext
servers. Hypertext is an information presentation methodology which allows
highlighted words(or links) to point to other hypertext documents. The
links are followed by pointing to the link and clicking, if you have a
PC or workstation or using the terminal cursor keys. Documents may
contain text, images, video, audio or postscript. The thing that
makes World-Wide Web so powerful is that the servers know how to deal
with the Internet and can retrieve documents from anywhere in the world.
World-Wide Web was developed primarily at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory. World-Wide Web is made up of servers and browsers
(or clients). Servers are required if you want to set up a repository of
hypertext documents for others to access. If you simply want to explore
the Web, you only need a browser and TCP/IP connectivity.
World-Wide Web Browsers: Mosaic
The most popular and feature-rich viewer is Mosaic, developed by NCSA,
the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana-Champaign,
IL. There are versions for workstations running Motif, PCs running
Windows and Macintoshs. Be sure to check the directories listed for
additional tools and information.
For UNIX workstations:
Pointer: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Mosaic/Mosaic-binaries
Alternate: gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/net/infosys/mosaic/Mosaic-binaries
Mosaic-alpha.Z [for DEC OSF/1, 1.3] Mosaic-dec.Z [for MIPS/ULTRIX]
Mosaic-hp700.Z [HP/UX] Mosaic-ibm.Z [for AIX]
Mosaic-sgi.Z Mosaic-sun-lresolv.Z
Mosaic-sun.Z [for SunOS; if you have problems, try Mosaic-sun-lresolv.Z]
** NOTE: The Solaris port of Motif 1.2 had too many bugs, so was removed.
For Macintosh:
Pointer: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Mosaic/Mac/NCSAMosaicMac.102.sit.hqx
The NCSAMosaicMac.102.sit.hqx has been stuffed using Stuffit 1.5 and
has been encoded using Binhex 4.0. You can un-binhex and un-stuff the
file using any utility which handles these compression schemes.
If you don't have one try StuffitExpander (it nicely handles both schemes)
located in the Mac/Mosaic directory. In order to un-binhex the expander
follow the directions in Binhex.README located in Mac/Utilities.
For PCs running MS-Windows:
Pointer: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Mosaic/Windows/wmos1_0.zip
NCSA Mosaic for MS Windows is a winsock1.1 compliant program. This
means that it requires you to have a winsock.dll to provide the TCP/IP
networking under windows. If you are using a commercial TCP/IP stack
such as PC-NFS or running a local area network such as Novell in addition
to the TCP/IP, you need to contact your network vendor directly about
obtaining the Winsock DLL. If you are using a stand-alone Windows box
on the Internet, you may use a shareware winsock called Trumpet. We
have a copy located in the sockets subdirectory, but the latest copy
can always be found via anonymous FTP at "biochemistry.bioc.cwru.edu"
in the "/pub/trumpwsk" directory.
World-Wide Web: What you need and where to find it
========================================================================
World-Wide Web Browsers: Lynx
Lynx was developed at the University of Kansas as a result of efforts
to build a a campus-wide information system for use on character cell
terminals. Check the directory for details about additional files you
might want to copy. Source kits are also available.
Pointer: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu:pub/lynx
lynx2-1-1.AIX.EXE.Z lynx2-1-1.AlphaVMS.Multinet.EXE
lynx2-1-1.OSF.EXE.Z [for Alpha] lynx2-1-1.SUN4.EXE.Z
lynx2-1-1.ULTRIX.EXE.Z lynx2-1-1_VMS_Multinet.EXE [for VAX]
Where to find things: A Starting Point
There are literally hundreds of servers, but here are some places to
start. Mosiac provides an excellent one on the Navigate pull-down.
Pull down the menu and select "Internet Starting Points". For those
using Lynx, type i for index to find a list of servers. To view the
documents below, use the following URLs(Universal Resource Locator).
The button in Mosaic is "open" and from Lynx, press the key "g".
http://www.dec.com/info.html
Digital's WWW information center for customers - has just about
everything that is public for customers that Russ Jones can get
ahold of.
http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html
GNN Home Page; GNN is Global Network Navigator, a free magazine on
the Internet by O'Reilly and Assoc.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Server.html
External WWW servers; long list from CERN of every known server.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html
UNC's server; includes many government servers, including NII.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/nii/toc.html
Table of contents for the National Information Infrastructure
document, for those who don't want to wait for the VERY large image
which you get when you go in through the UNC home page.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html
What's New with Mosaic
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Overview.html
Tools for WWW providers
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/hypertext/docs/bdgtii/bdgtti-1.02_toc.html
Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet - Table of Contents
When you find documents you want to remember, you can add them to your
"hotlist" by choosing the hotlist item on the Navigate pull-down menu
from Mosaic or type a for adding it to your bookmark file in Lynx.
This document was created by Gail Grant. Please send corrections,
comments and updates to her at grant@pa.dec.com
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