I n t e r n e t - T o o l s II Frequently Asked Questions with Answers about Internet-Tools Release 2 What Internet-Tools is not? It is not a programmer guide, niether a technical paper. It is not written in English. It is not a public domain document. It is not a translated work. What is Internet-Tools? It is a published book both in printed form (ISBN 957-23-0193-4, Third Wave Book Co., Taipei) and in electronic form. It is written to guide you to the world of Internet. It is not a theoretical-type of paper, rather it is a friendly step-by-step book guiding you how to send E-mail under different environ-ments, how to transfer files between hosts (like ftp, kermit and sz/rz stuff), how to log into a remote host, how to benefit from Usenet and how to reach all sort of public service systems in Internetland etc. What language is the book written? This book is written in Chinese, but with Taiwanese in mind. How good is the book? It not only guides you with all kind of operations like sending email, transferring file and etc in a step-by-step style, it also consists of information which is supposed to answer: What Internet is not? What is Usenet? How/where to reach Chinese gopher/archie/libaray/BBS in Internet? Local information about Taiwan Internet What is FTP? What is UUCP? How to sign on/off BITNET mailing list? How to search mailing list for your interest? How to install Chinese version of NCSA Telnet How to make MS-Kermit work with Chinese environment? What is Internet Gopher/Archie/FTP/Hytelnet/BBS/.... system? And a lot more ... What environments does this book cover? Unix, IBM VM/CMS and DEC VAX/VMS. What is the exact content of it? Read ./content which is the contents of table. How about the copy right? Read ./COPYRIGHT. How/where to get this book? For traditional printed book: Contact your local book store if you are in Taiwan. You already know the publisher and ISBN. For electronic book: Gopher: You can actually read this Chinese electronic book if you are able to reach those Chinese gopher servers there in Taiwan. If you do you do. I don't attempt to show you how to make a Chinese connection over the net, other than writing this book for you. One of the server that you can try is gopher.csie.nctu. edu.tw. From there you can also reach all other Chinese gopher servers too. FTP: NCTUCCCA.edu.tw:/Chinese/Internet-Tools ./index_by_chapter ./index_by_topic What inner code does this electronic book support? Currently, 1. BIG5 (used mainly in Taiwan & Hong Kong) -- THIS IS DEFAULT. 2. PS (Postscript, used everywhere) 3. GB (used mainly in Singopore & China) other form such as TeX is possibly added in the future. How to view/read/print this electronic book? 1. For DOS users: To view/print BIG5 traditional chinese characters, you have ETen or KC chinese system. The latter is freely available via FTP from moers2.edu.tw:/chinese-pub/chinese-sys. To view GB simplified one, NJstar should work. 2. For Unix users: If you have X Window, CXterm should work for both GB & BIG5. 3. PS If you are totally idiot about the Chinese computing and still want to read this book, get PS version, send it to Postscript printer and you get a free book. If you just have reguar laser printer, ask people around how to use ghostscript/ghostview/ whatever to print it. Where to get GB and PS version of it? NCTUCCCA.edu.tw:/Chinese/Internet-Tools directory ./gb -- all GB stuff ./ps -- all PS stuff (wait if I haven't uploaded yet) How about the history of the book? The first attempt was implemented in July 1992. The current release is finished in February 1994 which is about 70% rewrite from last release. Who is the author? 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