Subject: WWII-L Digest - 21 May 1993 to 22 May 1993

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Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 00:00:38 -0400

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Topics of the day:

  1. "Johnnie" Frost.
  2. NETTOOLS
  3. <No subject given>

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Date:    Sat, 22 May 1993 06:40:28 EST
From:    Larry Jewell <[email-masked]>
Subject: "Johnnie" Frost.

Rueter News reports that Major-General "Johnnie" Frost died on May 22.

He led the advance elements to the bridge at Arnhem during Operation
Market-Garden. After his unit was cut off from the main body of troops
he led the defense of the foothold at the bridge until the situation was
hopeless.  (In the movie "A Bridge Too Far" he was portrayed by Anthony
Hopkins.)

Larry J

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Date:    Sat, 22 May 1993 11:53:22 -0400
From:    Lydia Fish <[email-masked]>
Subject: NETTOOLS

This came across lstown this morning and I thought it might be useful to those
of you who are interested in exploring the networks a bit.

Lydia

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The following table of contents is from the document NETTOOLS MEMO
stored on the filelist DOC on LISTSERV@EARNCC (3700+ lines long).

It might be useful to your list members/users too.

(This document has been announced on NETTRAIN et al.)

/Pete

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                  Guide to Network Resource Tools

                         EARN Association

                          April 26, 1993

                              Contents

     Introduction

     Part 1:  EXPLORING THE NETWORK

        GOPHER
           What is Gopher
           Who can use Gopher
           How to get to Gopher
           Using Gopher
           VERONICA
              Simple Boolean search method
              Partial Boolean search method
           Learning more about Gopher
        WORLD-WIDE WEB
           What is World-Wide Web
           Who can use World-Wide Web
           How to get to World-Wide Web
           Using World-Wide Web
           Learning more about World-Wide Web

     Part 2:  SEARCHING DATABASES

        WAIS
           What is WAIS
           Who can use WAIS
           How to get to WAIS
           Learning more about WAIS
        ASTRA
           What is ASTRA
           Who can use ASTRA
           How to get to ASTRA
           Using ASTRA
              General Commands
              Batch Query Language Commands
           Examples
           Learning more about ASTRA

     Part 3:  FINDING NETWORK RESOURCES

        ARCHIE
           What is ARCHIE
           Who can use ARCHIE
           How to get to ARCHIE
           Using ARCHIE
              Using a local client
              Using Telnet
              Using Electronic mail
           Examples
           Learning more about ARCHIE
        WHOIS
           What is WHOIS
           Who can use WHOIS
           How to get to WHOIS
           Using WHOIS
           Examples
           Learning more about WHOIS
        NETSERV
           What is NETSERV
           Who can use NETSERV
           How to get to NETSERV
           Using NETSERV
              Commands For General Users
           Examples
           Learning more about NETSERV

     Part 4:  GETTING FILES

        TRICKLE
           What is TRICKLE
           Who can use TRICKLE
           How to get to TRICKLE
           Using TRICKLE
              Important Commands
           Examples
           Learning more about TRICKLE
        BITFTP
           What is BITFTP
           Who can use BITFTP
           How to get to BITFTP
           Using BITFTP
              Command description
           Learning more about BITFTP

     Part 5:  NETWORKED INTEREST GROUPS

        NETNEWS (USENET)
           What is NETNEWS
           Who can use NETNEWS
           How to get to NETNEWS
           Using NETNEWS
              Unix
              X-window
              VMS
              VM/CMS
              MVS
              Macintosh
              MSDOS
           Learning more about NETNEWS

        LISTSERV
           What is LISTSERV
           Who can use LISTSERV
           How to get to LISTSERV
           Using LISTSERV
              List subscription commands
              Informational commands
              File and filelist commands
`             Parameter description
              LISTSERV Database Facilities
           Examples
           Learning more about LISTSERV

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 Permission to copy  all or part of this document  without fee is granted
 provided the copies  are not used for commercial advantage  and that the
 EARN Association is cited as the source of the document.

 We would like to express our  gratitude to the authors and developers of
 these tools for making their work available to the networking community.
 We have consulted their documentation,  and the documentation of others,
 in preparing this guide, and for this we are also grateful. We have used
 their descriptions  and explanations  when suitable,  but any  errors or
 inaccuracies are the sole responsibility  of the EARN staff. Consult the
 sources  listed at  the end  of each  section for  specific queries  and
 original detailed information.
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 Send the command:     GET filename
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           NETTOOLS MEMO         (plain text)

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Date:    Sat, 22 May 1993 13:56:49 -0400
From:    NNTP server account <[email-masked]>
Subject: <No subject given>

Newsgroups: mail.wwii-l
Path: kean.ucs.mun.ca!noller
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Interview about the Battle of Britain
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Sender: [email-masked] (NNTP server account)
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 18:54:21 GMT

A friend of mine told me that he saw an interview of a Pole concerning his
participation in the Battle of Britain. it's a humourous story that I've
posted in rec.humour, but I want to know if it's true.

The reporter was asking this Polish fellow about some of the sorties he
had flown during the war; part of the story went something like this:

Veteran:  ...then the fuckers came at us out of the sun. These fuckers
          were everywhere.

reporter: For the viewing audience, a Fokker (sp?) was a type of German
          fighter aircraft.

Veteran:  Yes, that is true, but these fuckers were Messerschmitts.

Well?????

Mike, Memorial University

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