Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Message-ID: Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pacs-l Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:04:40 CDT Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum Subject: Results: First Internet Hunt, Pt. 2 of 2 Lines: 241 From: lb05gate@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Rick Gates) Subject: RESULTS: First Internet Hunt, Pt. 2 of 2 THE ANSWERS =========== 1. (4) I'm leaving for Japan tomorrow. Approximately how many yen can I get for my dollar, give or take a few yen ? Winner's Answer: (4) 126.23 (an end of August figure) Via Gopher access to Hermes.Merit.Edu to UM-Ulibrary and to the menu soc-sci, then ec bulletin board, then monetary stats. Other Answers: (3) 123.01 on 9/1/92, according to "USA TODAY: Headline Business News" on the Cleveland Freenet (telnet to freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, then access "The Business and Industrial Park.") (Rick: USA Today on Cleveland Freenet does not always carry exchange rates.) (3) CIA World Factbook telnet info.cern.ch Search under Japan (Rick: Need to do a large text search) (2) Usenet group soc.culture.japan (Rick: This info is infrequent.) 2. (7) A hurricane just blew in! Where can I find satellite photos of it's progress? Winner's Answer: (6) For satellite photos, ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu. The files are .gif files. (Rick: The directory for these files /wx, needs to be specified for maximum points.) Other Answers: (6) ftp unidata.ucar.edu (Rick: Not as current.) (Rick: Not what I was asking for, but several users gave me information on a Quick-Time movie that was specific to Hurricane Andrew. Check out ftp to: sumex-aim.stanford.edu: /info-mac/art/qt/hurricane-andrew.hqx or nic.switch.ch /mirror/info-mac/art/qt/hurricane-andrew.hqx ) 3. (6) I'm taking a job as a social studies teacher at a high school in Denver, Co. Where can I find a list of local environmental organizations that could come speak to my classes? Winner's Answer: (6) Access CARL (pac.carl.org). The Directory of Environmental Education Resources (DEER) is a joint project of Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education (CAEE) and Colorado Dept. of Education, as a service from Pikes Peak Library District. At Pikes Peak Lib. District menu go to #3 for Encyclopedias, Business and Reference (sources including DEER). DEER is 26. If you browse by title you will see an alphabetical list of programs focused on environmental ed. Other Answers: (2) Suggested asking at various Usenet groups such as K12.net talk.environment 4. (4) My wife just got a job at the University of North Carolina. My specialty is computer/data processing work. Where can I find a list of jobs in that area of the state? Winner's answer: (4) North Carolina State University's CWIS, "Happenings," has a menu item, "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs," which contains the listings of vacancies posted by the North Carolina Office of State Personnel Vacancies. Category #5 is entitled "Data Processing." Beyond that, the CWISes of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, at Chapel Hill, at Greensboro, and at Wilmington also provide job listings. One of my difficulties for this question is that I haven't a clue at which University of North Carolina site your wife got a job. That's why I decided to give you all the possible UNC sites. For the state listings the NCSU's Happenings is the best source. Other Answers (4) telnet to info.acs.unc.edu, login: info, and select #6 "Human Resources (faculty/staff)" 5. (2) How many copies of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" does the University of Nevada at Las Vegas hold? Winner's Answer: (1) There are two copies in special collections at the Univ. of Nevada at Las Vegas. I couldn't get in through UNLV but did get in through Reno and found access to Southern Nevada which enabled me to look up Las Vegas. (Rick: We need the telnet address (IP) for full points here.) 6. (6) Bill Clinton made a speech somewhere on Earth day this year. Where can I find the text of it? Winner's Answer: (6) Via WAIS (quake.think.com), I searched Clinton speeches at sunsite.unc.edu. - clinton-speechess. Bill Clinton spoke at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA on Earth Day in April 22, 1992. Other Answers: (Rick: There were many good answers. Here are a few...) (6) Cleveland Free-Net. go campaign. Select 3. Article 48 (6) ftp sunsite.unc.edu /pub/docs/speeches (6) ftp to ftp.uu.net cd doc/papers/democrats/clinton get enviro.text (6) The text of the speech can also be found on cobalt.cco.caltech.edu in /pub/bjmccall/Clinton2/enviro.txt (6) FTP to nptn.org (192.55.234.52) under /pub/campaign.92. The filename is called c46.txt. (6) ftp from ftp.uu.net in directory /doc/literary/obi/USElection/President/Clinton as enviro.txt.Z. (5) LDBASE search of the archives at CLINTON@MARIST (Rick: need to subscribe to search these archives.) 7. (7) I just read an interesting paper by a Bradley Smith in the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Australia. Is it possible to get an email address for him? Winner's Answer (7) Yes, his address is: bjs@crystal.uwa.oz.au Using the Internet Gopher X500 gateway, phonebooks directory, you can narrow to country, to Australia, to university, and then to Chemistry department. Other Answers (7) Netfind at the University of Colorado. (Telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu and login as netfind. Search for Smith Western Australia) (7) whois -h uniwa.uwa.oz.au smith (7) I found his address by first anonymous FTP-ing the whois-servers.list from sipb.mit.edu (cd /pub/whois). The list told me that there is a whois server at uwa.edu.au, so I used Fetch to FTP to the site. I got the file "directories" from the server (cd /pub/aarnet/resource-guide/directories), which told me that the University of Western Australia's whois information could be retrieved with the command "whois -h uwa.oz.au name", which was Smith. I got a list of everyone named Smith who was associated with the University of Western Australia. (7) whois -h uwa.edu.au smith 8. (2) Someone told me that there's a collection of software specifically for libraries stored somewhere in Canada called libsoft. How do I get ahold of this software? Winner's Answer: (2) You can FTP to hydra.uwo.edu, directory libsoft. [I know this because a file of mine is in this directory.] (Rick: Most people suggesting searching archie or doing an archive search of pacs-l at uhupvm1.) 9. (4) Where can I find news, discussions, and perhaps eyewitness reports out of what used to be Yugoslavia? Winner's Answer: (4) A good mailing list is the listserv SOC.CULTURE.YUGOSLAVIA. Other Answers: (3) The e-conference MidEur-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (subscribe by sending mail to listserv@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU with the contents "SUB MIDEUR-L yourfirstname yourlastname"), or Slovak-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU, subscribeable in the same fashion. (Rick: Might provide better information in the long run. I'm looking for information right now. See above.) 10. (6) Could you tell me how I can find the Washington address for the congressman from my district? Winner's Answer (6) Via WAIS I identified the Congress file from pit.mit.edu, and identified Robert J. Lagomarsino as the Rep from District including Santa Barbara. His Washington address is: 2332 Rayburn Washington DC 20515 Other Answers: (6) telnet to info.umd.edu /Government/US/Congress/sens+reps-detail (5) ftp pit-manager.mit.edu cd pub/activism/congress get the two letter code for your state. (Rick: this involves downloading and searching text) (4) ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu: pub/wais-indices/congress.doc (Rick: This involves downloading and searching even more text) That's all folks! End of Part 2 of 2