Welcome to the LIBrary SOFTware Archives of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario (HYDRA.UWO.CA) Your moderator is Gord Nickerson. Updated Sept 3 1992 LIBSOFT contains programs of interest to librarians. File descriptions are in the file INDEX.TXT which you should read before transferring files. This site does not contain any general software (word processors, databases, etc) as they are easily obtainable from the archives at simtel or its mirrors such as wuarchive.wustl.edu. LIBSOFT also has files to help librarians make use of the Internet. LIBSOFT also maintains updates to Peter Scott's hypertext database in the \HYTELNET directory. Changes that occur between releases of HYTELNET versions are kept as text files with an extension of .TXT Please login as user AMONYMOUS and use your e-mail address as a password. This is a courtesy to the system manager who tracks these things. Please do not access this site during local working hours (9-5) as it increases the load on the machine. Remember, anonymous FTP is a privledge - not a right. Hydra is located in the EDT. Text (ASCII) files generally have the extension .TXT and can be transferred with the GET filename command. All program (binary) files have extensions .ZIP, .EXE or .COM and should have the transfer type set to binary (TYPE BINARY) before transferring with the GET filename command. Files with .EXE or .COM are self-extracting archives. After downloading the file to your PC just type the filename to extract all the compressed files. .ZIP files require the PKUNZIP program for extraction. NOTE: WordPerfect files (.wp5) must have the file mode set to binary before transferring. Direct suggestions, comments, etc to: Gord Nickerson Research Coordinator Advancement Services University of Western Ontario email: NICKERSO@UWOVAX.UWO.CA If you have written a useful program for librarians or have used some public domain or shareware program specifically designed for libraries and would like to share it with others just drop me a line and I shall add it to the archives. Currently the archive is slanted towards MS-DOS. However more Mac files may be added in the future. Many files are in WordPerfect 5.1 format but for the convenience of users I will try and provide ASCII versions as well.