UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA I Computer and Information Services Newsletter
This newsletter is an information resource for the University of Minnesota. Volume 4, Number 7
January 1995 Campus-wide E-mail and Internet Access v Features Campus-wide E-mail and Internet Access ...... 121 Donald Riley, Professor, Associate Vice President Central Systems and Associate Provost Academic Affairs Using Tin to Read USENET News ...... 134 Computer Facilities: Winter Schedule .... 137-138 Floppy Minuet ...... 123 Using a floppy disk to access E-mail The campus-wide E-mail and URL-aware Software for the Mac ...... 126 POPmail and TurboGopher ...... 127 Internet access project was Training Update ...... 136 introduced in the fall Virtual Library of 1992. This Academic Index: a Good Place to Start Your Research ...... 131
v Computer Store News Williamson Hall: 625-3854 The WordPerfect Site License program for departments is in place; call the hotline at 62& 1782 with questions.
We carry the GN Netcom telephone headsets When we introduced this project, we also initiated dial-up SLIP and accessories. These headsets are compat access; thereby providing for network connections from off ible with the University phone system and come campus telephones, such as home and dormitory, with an initial with a two year warranty. Several models are pool of 32 modems. available for $145.
Free E-mail Updates Explosive Growth To get product and price change bulletins sent to you electronically, subscribe to the Bookstore Since that time, we have experienced explosive growth in the use prices list by sending E-mail to: of these facilities. On the central E-mail machines, "maroon" [email protected] and "gold," we are now delivering 800,000 messages per week with a growth rate of around 5-10 percent per week. The dial-up SLIP access has been experiencing similar growth of around 20 percent per month. On a typical day, users make between Printed on recycled paper. ~ ·~ Addressing & Mailing's ~ 12,000 to 15,000 SLIP connections. Cheshire labels are recyclable. Page 122 January 1995 Computer and ... Best wishes in the New Year
As of this writing the SLIP modem pool stands at 400 Expanding the SLIP Modem Pool modems; by the time you read this it should have about To accommodate the growth in demand for dial-up 600 modems. services, we are expanding the SLIP modem pool by an additional 200 modems. Here again, in our planning we This kind of growth has been difficult to accommodate, encountered a dilemma. We knew we needed to add both from a financial and human resources standpoint, additional modems, and newer, faster modems were given University budgets of recent years. supposed to be on the market this summer. We had hoped to add more modems by the fall; however, delivery sched ules of the modem vendors and subsequently the terminal Lost Funding server vendors were delayed. Given the limited resources The University's supplemental budget request last year, available to invest in the modem pool, we thought it vetoed by Governor Carlson, included funds for expanding prudent to delay until we could install the newer, faster the E-mail systems and increasing the number of modems modems, rather than going with the older technology. in the SLIP modem pool. Enhancements and expansion have occurred through reallocation of funds and staff from We have been testing the newer terminal servers and plan other projects, but it has not been easy. The loss of the to have the new modems and servers in place around the vetoed funds forced us to develop alternative, less expen first of the year. sive plans for enhancing the E-mail system and delayed the implementation schedule until right around the start of classes this fall. What's Next? What next? Up to this point, the E-mail and Internet The timing was of major concern to Computer and access as well as the dial-up SLIP access has been a free Information Services' staff. Since projected growth rates in service to all faculty, staff and students. Because of the use of E-mail indicated that the E-mail system would not problems of keeping up with the explosive growth in use of be able to handle the expected fall load, the decision was these services on extremely limited budgets, we have been made to go ahead with the acquisition and installation of engaged in analyzing usage patterns. Based on this the Sun Microsystems multiprocessor units. analysis, we have concluded that a very small percentage of the users consume a very large percentage of the available resources. We are considering the possibility of providing Temporary Slowdown Unfortunately, we immediately hit an undocumented some base level of free access to faculty, staff and students, but also implementing some kind of fee-for-service for problem in the software supplied by Sun Microsystems, those users who consume significantly more of the re which only appears when you try to handle more than 125- sources. 130 simultaneous interactive users. It took over a month -working closely with Sun software engineers- to find Another option is to add dedicated modems for particular and correct the series of problems associated with this users or departments and charge for this special service. At phenomenon. During this time period, users experienced the present time, adding sufficient modems to address the E-mail delivery delays of up to 12 hours. However, even access problem would be too costly; and tariffs are cur during this difficult period, the volume of E-mail delivered rently too high to make ISDN or leased 56k lines a viable was significantly higher than last year at this time (as shown choice. in the Busy Signals article in our December issue). We have been striving to provide a high quality, reliable We believe we are past these difficulties, and we are service to University faculty, staff and students either free delivering E-mail at record levels of approximately 800,000 or at as low a cost as possible. While limited University messages per week. During the peak busy period, which resources have made this difficult, we remain committed to occurs around 3:00p.m. each day, the maximum delay this objective and will continue to work hard to achieve it. time for mail to be delivered through the "maroon" and "gold" mail systems is no more than 30 minutes. .. .Information Services January 1995 Page 123
Floppy Minuet
Using a floppy disk to access E-mail
You may want to use Minuet on a will copy the four Minuet files to the drive you specify. floppy disk if you need to be able For example, at the P:\> prompt type: to carry your E-mail messages with you wherever you go flopmin a: throughout the day. Mter the flies have copied, you will have about 778K of When you use Minuet extra space for messages and files. Minuet creates all the on a floppy disk you other files and directories as needed. can read and compose E-mail messages using any IBM Start Minuet compatible computer By the time you read this the Computer Facilities on all anywhere; even if the campuses should let you access Minuet on a floppy disk. computer does not have a network connection. In East Bank or St. Paul addition, you can use your "Floppy Minuet" disk to fttch Mter you start up one of the IBM-compatibles, you will be and send E-mail from any Computer Facility- or from presented with a C:\> prompt. (If you are given an option, home via SLIP dial-up access to the campus network. select the DOS prompt.) To start your copy of Minuet, at the C:\> prompt type:
Create a Minuet Floppy Disk a:minuet We recommend that you use a high density 3 l/2-inch disk. Format your disk and copy the following Minuet Press the (Return] key and wait for Minuet to load. You will flies: see the Incoming mail window. MINUET.EXE MINUET.CNF CUSTOM.TXT West Bank (HHH 50) MINUET.HLP When you start an IBM computer in HHH 50, you are presented with a Novell Menu System with a list of selec These files are located on micro_info, our IBM Information tions. When you select (Novell) server. The easiest way to copy them is to take a floppy disk to: 1. Floppy Minuet
• any Microcomputer HelpLine a message will remind you to insert your Minuet floppy • students can go to any Computer Facility disk in drive A. Once you press (Return], Minuet will load (a list is at the end of this article) from your floppy disk.
Remember to format your disk first. Then go to the P: drive. A batch file named Set up Minuet The first time you start Minuet, you will want to set it up flopmin.bat for your E-mail account. From the Setup menu choose User and you will see a "Setup Personal Information" dialog box. Fill in the two fields shown in Figure l.
You must enter your complete E-mail address; in the Figure 1: Fill in these Minuet Fields example in Figure l that address is: [email protected]. If you wish, you can also enter E-mail Address [email protected] your full name. Leave the other fields blank. Your full name Jasmine R. Lily Page 1.24 January 1.995 Computer and ...
Click OK or Press @® window. Press rn or click the Fetch command to begin To tell Minuet you have completed fllling out a dialog box, transferring the mail from the mail server to your floppy click OK or press the @-@ keys. disk. If your password is needed, Minuet will prompt you for it.
Password Security All fetched mail messages are automatically saved to the To ensure the security of your account, do not enter your directory: password in the Setup dialog box. Minuet will automati cally prompt you for your password when it is needed to A:\INBOX.MBX access the network. If you misplace your disk or someone else tries to use it, they will not be able to access your account without entering your password. Enclosures Any enclosures you receive are saved to the directory
Additional Setup Menu Choices A: \ENCL
Automate Your Mailings In order to read an enclosure, you will need the application A. Select Preferences. Check Add signature to outgoing which created it, such as Microsoft Word or WordPerfect. mail so that your signature is automatically appended to every outgoing message. You may want to check Save copy of outgoing mail to keep a record of messages Reading and Composing E-mail you send. You do not need to be connected to the network to read or compose E-mail messages. You can compose as many Create Signature messages, replies, and forwards as you like. Your only limit B. Select Signature to enter your signature. A polite is disk space. signature would be short but include your name, E mail address, and institutional affiliation, such as: You can start Minuet on any IBM-compatible that can read your disk. Jasmine Lily, [email protected] University of Minnesota, Plant Biology 0 Read messages in the Incoming mail window. If necessary, select the Window/Viewer command to see Create an "Address" Book it. Press or[[) to go to next and previous C. Select Aliases to enter a list of E-mail addresses of ru messages. people and groups. For example, you may send E-mail frequently to your friend in Ecuador, your cousin 0 To compose a new message, go to a Composer Wanda Fish, and your garden club. window. If appropriate press ru for Composer; the exact command you use depends on which Minuet An alias is a meaningful name followed by a blank window you start from. space and one or more E-mail addresses, as shown in Figure 2. Fill in the information for recipient, subject line, and message "fields." If you have set up aliases, remember to use the Alias command to designate recipient(s). Fetch Your Mall You can use any IBM-compatible in one of the Computer Facilities; all of them are connected to the campus net work. To fetch new mail you should be in the
Incoming mail
Figure 2: Sample Alias List
Juan [email protected] trevor [email protected] garden_club [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] .. .Information Services January 1995 Page 125
D Each time you want to begin a new message, press (fiJ More Information to open a new Composer window; press (f[J to go To use Minuet's on-line help, click on the command or back to a previous message. field where you want help, then press (IT].
You can return to any message to edit it. Minuet saves A short Minuet QJtick Reference Guide is also available. It all your messages until you can send them. A status covers the basics and lists the commands by function key. message at the bottom of the Composer window tells You can pick up a copy at any Microcomputer HelpLine. you which message you are composing, for example: Or, if you are on-line, you can get the text file quickreftxt Composer 5 of 5 by anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu.
Using Minuet/FTP Sending Messages From Minuet's menu select the Window/FTP command To send your messages, you must connect to the network. and enter the server name Start Minuet as usual and select Window/Composer. boombox.micro.umn.edu
Send One Message Minuet assumes you want to use anonymous ftp, so click To send a single message, display the message you want to OK when you see the dialog box with the word anony send and press the [D key or click Send. mous. Then follow this path:
pub/pc/minuet/quikref.txt Send All Composed Messages To send all the messages you have composed, hold down To retrieve the file, press[[) for "Fetch File." Once you the (Shift] key and press the [D key, or hold the (Shift] key have retrieved the file you can view it by using Minuet's and click the Send command. File/Open command.
If you have questions about using Minuet, you can call the Quit Minuet E-mail HelpLine or, send E-mail to Always quit Minuet before you eject your disk! From the [email protected]. keyboard press @D-0 or click Exit from the File menu.
Computer Facilities for Floppy Minuet Disk Full Eventually, your disk may fill up. For many people, the Building Room easiest solution is to start a new Minuet floppy disk. If you like, you can skip the on-line help file, MINUET.HLP, East Bank and save 121K. However you will notice additional files Lind Hall 26 that Minuet created when you set up your signature, Folwell Hall 14 aliases, etc. If you want to continue to use the information Walter Library 9 in these files, copy the files listed here to your floppy disk: Eddy Hall Annex 54 St Paul POPMAIL.GUP Central Library 850 MINUET.SIG COB 135 MINHIST.TXT McNeal Hall 305
Do not copy any of the directories. West Bank HHH Center 50 Page 126 January 1995 Computer and ...
URL-aware Software for the Mac
We've recently released The parts that follow the colon vary. Generally two slashes URL-aware versions of (//)precede a host (or port) name. TurboGopher and POPmail. You'll fmd brief announce Embedded URLs ments for both Instead of retyping the URL, you want to give a command products below as well that says: go get it. To animate an embedded URL, the as some information on software must automatically establish a link with the URLs and helper applica document or directory. Next the client software that can tions that understand URLs. display, print, or save the item must be launched. To execute these requirements the software must know several protocols. Protocols are the rules used to define, distin T Uniform Resource Locator guish, and transmit data. URLs can make locating resources on the Internet rela tively easy. U-R-L stands for Uniform Resource Locator. URLs are an increasingly popular naming scheme that T Helper Applications includes the location and method of obtaining items or Since old Internet protocols evolve and new ones get directories on the Internet. The methods of obtaining introduced, adequately supporting all protocols in one Internet resources include gopher, http (www), news application imposes horrific overhead on the development (newsgroups), mailto (E-mail), ftp, and telnet. of software. Rather than trying to do everything in a single bloated application, several Macintosh developers (named below) banded together to develop a modular approach. A Standard Form of URLs They worked on a way to let software call external, helper Recently a working group of the Internet Engineering applications that "speak" the correct protocol. Their Task Force (IETF) produced a document (rfc 1738) efforts resulted in a suite of network access components. defining a standard form for URLs. Given a standard way to point to resources on the Internet, a next step is to Mac network applications can use the AppleEvent suit this animate the URLs that get embedded inside documents. team developed to do two things: call other applications Animating the URL is desirable because a drawback to and fetch resources pointed to by IETF-standard URLs. URLs is that they tend to be long and composed of This approach makes it easy to add URL support to most curious and mysterious garbage words, as shown in · Macintosh applications since the software can simply call Figure 1 (some of these examples are from the "On-Line appropriate helper applications to handle the URL. Dictionary of Computing," copyright Denis Howe, 1994). The Mac developers of this suite include: As you can see, URLs are crammed with information. Internet Gopher team TurboGopher, POPmail Included in the URL is the name of the access scheme you (University of Minnesota) and InternetLink need to use to view or acquire the information. That word Peter Lewis Anarchie is followed by a colon, for example: John Norstad Ph, NewsWatcher Steve Dorner Eudora ftp: John Hardin MacWeb http: gopher:
Figure 1: Sample URLs
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/graphics/gifkit.zip http://info.cern.ch:80/default.html#Introduction
We're very pleased with this approach. Ultimately this sort To actually fetch an item pointed at by a URL, POPmail of architecture allows developers to concentrate on doing calls the appropriate helper application. If you do not have one thing really well and gives end users more choice in the a cooperating helper application on your hard disk, tools they use for Internet access. POPmail will not be able to complete your request.
Thread Manager Painless Upgrade These kinds of software upgrades come with a price: they The upgrade is painless. When you copy the software to don't work with old system software. To take advantage of your disk you do not lose the options you've selected from these new features you need the Thread Manager extension the Setup menu, any messages you've saved or archived, or installed on your Mac. The Thread Manager works on all any groups you've created. Macs running System 7 or later. A thread is simply a series of instructions executed in a program, and the Thread Manager is a tool that manages these threads in 'Y TurboGopher 2.0b5 multitasking endeavors. Version 2 ofTurboGopher marks the start of our move toward a component architecture for Internet access tools; If you are running System 7.5, the Thread Manager is it works with all versions of System 7. already installed on your Mac. On pre-7 .5 systems you must drop the Thread Manager into your System folder TurboGopher is still the fastest Macintosh Gopher client and restart your Mac. A copy of the Thread Manager is software available. Version 2 runs in native mode on included with TurboGopher. Power Macs and on other Macs running System 7. This turbocharged version lets you read the first part of a Mode 32 Conflict document or directory while the rest is being fetched. You Thread Manager conflicts with Mode32, software that can fetch multiple documents or directories at the same some old Macs using System 7 have installed. time and view documents larger than 32K without first saving the document to disk -providing you have enough Why use Mode32? Once Mode32 and System 7 are memory in your system. installed, those who use a Mac II can access up to 72MB of RAM and users of Mac Ilx, Hex, and SE/30 systems can access up to 128MB ofRAM. Mode32 is of no use to 16- Updated On-Line Help bit Macs, that is, the Plus, SE, Classic, and Portable. Although you can learn a lot about TurboGopher's new Mode32 is not needed for the newer Macs. features just by reading the built-in help, we'll cover a few topics to get you started. You'll find the Help item under the Gopher menu. Once you've opened a Help window, 'Y POPmall 2.2b2 you can use the Edit menu's Find command to search for We've made one significant change to POPmail (electronic specific topics. mail client software): version 2.2b2 includes support for resolving URLs that are embedded in E-mail messages. The first time you start TurboGopher version 2, it opens This change makes E-mail messages seem like Internet the Help window. If you close that Help window, it will aware hypertext. ask:
Do you want to save the changes to Fetch that URL "TurboGopher Help"? Now when your friends, colleagues, or mailing list group write to you about some wonderful Internet resource, if We strongly suggest you answer "Yes." The documenta they use the URL reference, you can use the Mail menu's tion answers common questions and also has an advanced features and shortcuts section; this section contains infor Resolve URL mation on features that most longtime users eventually want to master. command to check out the resource. To make this option work, you must first highlight the URL (by dragging your mouse through it). Page 128 January 1995 Computer and ...
Bookmarks Hereafter whenever you want to open this bookmark file, Gopher bookmarks serve the same function as paper you can simply select Open from the File menu. bookmarks. Both make it easy to return to selections you want to peruse again. There is one major difference between paper bookmarks and Gopher bookmarks. Paper Cut-Copy-Paste bookmarks are static. Gopher bookmarks save a pointer to Version 2 comes with some preset bookmarks; they're the networked item. The actual item stays on another listed in the window called computer (the Gopher server). Since this pointer simply acts as a link to a point in Gopherspace, the contents of the Bookmark Worksheet referenced item may change when you link to it the next time. You can customize this worksheet; it's like a general construction area. When you paste items into it that you The bookmark feature ofTurboGopher version 2 has been either copied while visiting some Gopher location or cut improved. One improvement is that you can now use from another bookmark file, the worksheet's revised standard Macintosh Cut-Copy-Paste commands to build or contents are automatically saved in a file called "Bookmark rearrange your list of bookmarks. Worksheet." If you close the Bookmark Worksheet window and want to open it again, select Show Bookmark Worksheet from the Gopher menu. Accessing Old Bookmarks Version 2 has a different implementation of the bookmark feature. A by-product of this change is that version 2 does Customizing the Bookmark Worksheet not recognize unconverted version l bookmark files. You can rename a bookmark entry. To do this select the Although preparing for this conversion requires extra steps entry's name, then select Edit Gopher Descriptor from the on your part, the process is easy. Gopher menu. From the resulting window you can edit the Title that shows up in your bookmark worksheet. Don't use this edit option to change anything else unless you Create a Separate Bookmark File understand the Gopher protocol. Many versions of TurboGopher let you save bookmarks you've accumulated to a separate file. This feature also lets You can use the standard Cut-Copy-Paste commands to you make a backup of your bookmarks; the cautious will rearrange items in any window. This feature lets you put already have made a backup of their valuable bookmark the items you use most frequently at the top of the list or collection. If you do not have a current backup, you must arrange the entries in any way that makes sense to you. create one before you can open your bookmark file in TurboGopher version 2. Bookmark Overload Version 1 Many people accumulate so many bookmarks they fmd it Save as Bookmark File difficult to manage the resulting list. Two options might Start up TurboGopher version l. If the Bookmarks help you if you, too, are experiencing bookmark overload. window is not open, select the Show Bookmarks option You can use the File menu's from the Gopher menu. Next, select the Save as Bookmark File option from the File menu. If you save the backup to New Item List your desktop, it will be very easy to find when you import the "old" bookmarks into TurboGopher version 2. When command to start a separate bookmark list devoted, for you're done; use the Q;tit command. example, to governmental gophers. Thereafter when you want to open this bookmark file, select Open from the File Version 2 menu. (Option) plus Open Command Start up TurboGopher version 2. Hold down the [Option) In addition, if you find a folder somewhere in Gopherspace key while selecting Open from the File menu. You may that you would like to come back to later, you can use the need to navigate disks and folders to find the old book Save As command to save the entire folder to your hard mark file; or you may fmd it on your desktop, as we disk. suggested earlier. Once you've located and opened the old bookmark file, it will be converted to the new, version 2, format. ... Information Services January 1995 Page 129
Fetch that URL You'll find the Use Uniform Locator option in the Gopher This section makes it easy to obtain the helper applications menu. You can type or paste a URL into this option's text you need to access and "animate" the resources you can window; and when you click on the OK button, fmd on the Internet. TurboGopher will attempt to access the document or directory. To complete your request, if necessary, The URLs for the two upgrades are shown in Figure 2. TurboGopher will call the appropriate helper application, such as ftp (Anarchic). Of course, if you do not have a cooperating helper application, TurboGopher cannot via Information Server complete your request. You'll also find the POPmail and TurboGopher upgrades on the Information volume of the Mac Information Server. In the near future we'll be rearranging folders on this Preferences Menu server; our goal is to make it easier for you to find things. If you access a lot of ASCII (plain) formatted text, you may For now, you'll find a POPmail folder inside the Network want to change the font that is used to display information Software folder. You'll also find a Gopher folder inside the to a fixed width font, such as Courier. You can do this Internet Tools folder. Here are both paths: with the Gopher menu's Preferences options. Information With version l, whenever you downloaded something you Communications had to tell TurboGopher where to save the item. Version Network Software 2 lets you select a default location to download items; to POPmail II customize this option look in the Preferences menu. Internet Tools Gopher Programs
T Obtaining the Upgrades Both the TurboGopher and POPmail upgrades are avail able on Gopher and on the Mac Information Server. An Obtaining Helper Applications extensive collection of helper applications are also conve When you upgrade you'll probably also want to get some niently available on Gopher. helper applications.
Although version 2 ofTurboGopher still functions as a via Gopher stand-alone gopher client, it can now be called by other The POPmail and TurboGopher upgrades are available via applications that want to resolve a Gopher URL. Likewise gopher and anonymous ftp from TurboGopher calls other applications to resolve URLs boombox.micro.umn.edu. You can download self provided the software is available on your hard disk. At extracting archive versions of the software. Many people press time those programs were Anarchic (ftp ), already have bookmarks called TurboGopher Distribution NewsWatcher (newgroups), and MacWeb (WWW/html). and POPmail Distribution. They can use these bookmarks to zoom to the appropriate section of Gopherspace. The Helper Applications section also includes other software. Internet explorers frequently find that they need If you don't have the bookmarks, the full Gopher path is many companion programs to make use of the resources they find on the Internet. The Helper Applications section Information About Gopher contains a variety of software that meets this wide defini Gopher Software Distribution tion of helper. Macintosh TurboGopher To use some of the applications you must install them in The POPmail upgrade is in the section called your System folder or do other things to set them up. Read the accompanying "readme" files or look for further helper-applications
Figure 2: URLs for the Upgrades
GOPHER://boombox.micro.umn.edu:70/ll/POPmail/macintosh FTP://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/POPmail/macintosh/ Page 130 January 1995 Computer and ...
instruction in the software's built-in help flies for specific Quick Time instructions. Apple's QuickTime system software extension adds capabilities that let your applications integrate graphics, Over time the software included in the Helper Applications sound, video, and animation into documents. section will change. Below are brief descriptions of some of the helper software. Simple Player Simple_Player uses the QuickTime movie controller to play and edit movies. Internet Clients An archie SoundMachine Anarchic is shareware and an ftp and Archie client. Like A ulaw (or mu-law) sound player. Fetch it will let you browse ftp sites, download files, or find them using an Archie server. Sparkle Sparkle is freeware that plays MPEGs, PICTs, and Mac Web QuickTime movies and converts between them. MacWeb is World Wide Web (WWW) client software, similar to Mosaic. Ulaw ULaw converts Mac sampled sounds to Sun Ulaw format Ph1 sounds and vice versa. Ph client for use with the UIUC CSO nameserver ( elec tronic phonebook software). File Utilities News Watcher CompactPro NewsWatcher is news readers software. A shareware file compression utility that supports archives and self-extracting archives. lnternetLink InternetLink is our Acrobat Exchange plug-in. It adds StuffltExpander URL support to PDF flies. Currently URL support is not Freeware to expand compressed files. available for the free Acrobat Reader software. Down Line DownLine is a utility which lets you process multiple flies Image and Sound Utilities in predefined ways. DownLine can un-Stuff, un-Binhex, Acrobat Reader un-Packit, Stuff, and Binhex files in batch mode or on Adobe's Acrobat Reader software is now free. It lets you demand. This demo release is free. view, navigate, print, and present any PDF (Portable Document Format) file. PDF files are created by other UULite Acrobat software, such as Acrobat Exchange, Acrobat UULite is shareware that handles UNIX to Mac text and Distiller, and Acrobat for Workgroups. The reader soft Mac text to UNIX text conversions, that is uuencode and ware lets people access documents without having the uudecode. application software, such as PageMaker or Microsoft Word. Acrobat Reader is especially useful for reading newsletters, journals, and other precisely formatted publi cations on your computer screen.
JPEGView JPEGView is an image viewer for PowerPC Macs and 680x0 Macs. It can open and display images in JPEG, PICT, GIF, TIFF, BMP, MacPaint, and Startup Screen formats. .. .Information Services January 1995 Page 131
Academic Index A Good Place to Start Your Research
Nancy K. Herther, University Libraries
Where would you go to look for database, as defined by the terms of our contract. To use information on diverse topics such Academic Index, select the multidisciplinary option or, to as those shown below? The Univer get right into the database, type in sity Libraries now have a good all round starting point for whatever a cad research or trivia-types of questions that you might have. Help and Tutorial What are the current immigration patterns to the U.S. from The database is menu-driven and quite easy to use. If you Europe? have difficulty at any step in the process, type in either H or Tto access either the Help screens or the useful Tutorial What will be the impact of the Republican electoral victories on the next Congress? to learn more about using the database.
What trends will be affecting academic research universities in the next decade? Search Options You can search by keyword - which will search through Are cholesterol levels affected by vitamin intake? the text of the citation (title, descriptors, abstract), or by What are today's hottest high technology stocks? author, title or subject descriptor. For example, to search for articles by management guru C. K Prahalad, type in
Academic Index prahalad-c-k Academic Index offers a good, international collection of or simply type in prahalad, since this is an uncommon about 1500 scholarly, business and professional journals for interdisciplinary research spanning the general sciences, name. You are then able to see the results of the search - humanities and the social sciences. Topics covered include in this case eight articles with Prof. H. Prahalad as either health, economics, communications, public affairs, man first or second author - and you can type in agement, law, politics, education, ethics and the environ ment. The database is produced by Information Access QD Company, a commercial, California-based database company. to get a quick display of the eight articles and an indication of whether or not full-text is available. Our implementation of the database is updated monthly and contains articles going back to 1985. Interested in covering some of the hot political issues of the day? Let's try prayer in public schools. By typing in
How Do I Get Access? school? and prayer You can use the database from any public access LUMINA terminal in any of our campus libraries. You can also have at the search prompt you are given a total of 136 docu remote access if you have an active Maroon or Gold E-mail ments with these words in them. The question mark(?) is account and password. Once you are at the main used as a wild card to allow for truncation. The first LUMINA screen, type in document in this list is shown in Figure l. If the full text is available for this article, to get it to appear on the screen just type in indexes instead ofMNCAT or one of the other options. Ifyou are FT at a remote terminal, you will be asked for your user id and your password, to verity that you entitled to use the Other important search options are given in Figure 2. Page 1.32 January 1.995 Computer and ...
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Search 1 SCHOOL? AND PRAYER 136 Documents
Document: 1 Accession No: 15522941. 9407. Database: ACAD Source: Church-State. volume 47, issue n5, May, 1994, p.12(2). (940500). Coden/ISSN: ISSN: 0009-6334 Year: 1994 Title: School prayer crusade advances in Georgia, Mississippi. (school prayer bill adopted in Georgia and Mississippi). Geog. Location: Georgia. Mississippi. NNUSUGA. NNUSUMS. Descriptors: Religion-and-state: Analysis. Georgia: Religion. Mississippi: Religion. Abstract: ABSTRACT: Legislatures in states such as Mississippi and Georgia have adopted the school prayer bills which are expected to be adopted in Washington D.C. and Florida as well. The bills allow non-proselytizing and non-sectarian prayers at public school events. The prayer will be led by a student volunteer. Various civil liberties groups, including Americans United in Washington DC, are against such a bill. Illustration: cartoon.
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Full-Text Journal of Advertising Yes, believe it or not, the Libraries are able to provide the Journal of Human Resources full-text for many of the documents in this database! Here Lancet is a partial listing of some of the publications for which the Mac User owners of the database have arranged for full-text access: Middle Eastern Studies NEAToday Age and Aging Observer American Journal of Psychology Public Welfare British Journal of Political Science Change Sciences Criticism UNESCO Courier Economic Geography Women's studies Environmental Law FDA Consumer The exact composition of which journals are full-text and Foreign Policy which aren't is not up the Libraries, but is determined by Futurist contracts negotiated by the owner of the database. If a Geriatrics particular article is available full-text, you can access this Human Rights Quarterly once you have the bibliographic citation and abstract on Industrial and Labor Relations Review the screen by typing FT. ... Information Services January 1995 Page 133
Figure 2: List of General Commands in Academic Index - ACAD
Here are just a few of the important commands you will want to remember when using this database:
Searching the database:
S Use when you want to enter a new search term BR Browse terms RE Use to revise your search statement
For Displaying your results:
D To display documents SC To get a full screen list of results - giving only the author and title for each
For Managing your search process:
R Review the complete search history of your work during this session with the database PG Purge previous searches (use to clear the screen and all previous work) SO Sort Search results
When you need Help:
H Help! General tips and ideas to help you see where you are at in the process and what your options are T A tutorial option to give you general search tips and guidance - a good place to start!
Where Can We Go Now? Give it a try yourself. Academic Index isn't intended to How has the war in Bosnia affected American foreign replace other, more specialized research tools, but it is a policy? Are there some recent articles on our own Gopher very impressive, important, easy-to-use starting point for and how it is being used. What trends are affecting interest whatever research question you might have. rates? Is diabetes sometimes caused by a virus? What is known about the connection between dark, winter days If you have any questions or need help using this or any of and depression? our databases, please feel free to stop in one of our campus libraries or contact me, Nancy Herther, phone 624-2020; Here is just a sampling of some of what I found doing Internet [email protected]. some quick search on the topics in the database: My campus address is Integrated Information Center, Search Term No. of Articles Found University Libraries, 6 Walter Library, East Bank. Bosnia and foreign policy 258 Gopher and Internet 39 Trends and interest rates 58 Diabetes and viral 11 Winter and depression 67 Page 1.34 January 1.995 Computer and ...
Using TIN to Read USENET News
We've recently installed There is also a command to easily Table 1.: Default .newsrc File a newUsenet download a newsgroup without news.announce.important newsreader, Tin, on interactively accessing and saving news.announce.newusers the maroon and gold specific articles. The articles you've news.answers E-mail hosts. Tin was saved can then be read later. news.lists selected because it is an umn.config easy-to-use newsreader umn.general.events umn.general.food with a "look and feel" The .NEWSRC File umn.general. forsale that is similar to the Pine If you have used other news readers umn.general.housing mailer, Pico editor, and on maroon or gold on a regular basis, umn.general.jobs Lynx Web browser you probably have a ".newsrc" file umn.general.misc already on those rna that contains information about the umn.general.movies umn.general.music chines. Tin features a full-screen newsgroups you are subscribed to and interface with lots of online help, and umn.general.sports which articles have been read. If so, umn.local-lists.bookstore-prices you can even use some of the same Tin will use the same .newsrc file, and urn n.local-1 ists. microcomputer-news commands for navigating on screen automatically display the groups to umn.local-lists.news that you use in Pine. which you are subscribed. umn.news-server.announce umn. news-server. questions mn.general Tin is a threaded newsreader, which If you've never used a newsreader, means that articles are displayed one clari.local.minnesota we've made getting started easy. clari.net.announce "thread" at a time. A thread is a Since there are thousands of clari.net.newusers consecutive series of replies or articles newsgroups, with many new groups on a specific topic. These threads are added daily, it can take hours to view maintained and displayed in the order all the groups and subscribe to the Subscribing & Unsubscribing that they are received. ones you're interested in. To avoid You'll use Tin's initial "Group this process and help new users get Selection" menu to view and select started, our news administrators have newsgroups you would like to sub On Screen Menus set up a "template" .newsrc file for scribe to. Type "y" and Tin displays Each screen in Tin has a menu of each account that automatically all unsubscribed newsgroups at the commands at the bottom of the subscribes you to a small list of bottom of the menu. Unsubscribed screen. This menu lists only a few of newsgroups that we recommend for groups are indicated with a U to the the most frequently used commands. new users. Table 1 lists these groups. For a complete list of the commands left of the list. You can subscribe to a available from each screen, type h. group simply by moving your cursor to the group and typing "s". To (The only screen or level of Tin where Starting TIN unsubscribe to a group, type "u". this will not work is the initial You can start Tin by simply selecting "newsgroup-checking" level.) it from the mail shell's main menu as you do to use Pine or Gopher. Selecting a Group However, you will first need to specify If you start Tin without specifying a Quick Start Options Tin as your "preferred" newsreader, particular group, the "Group Selec Tin provides simple commands to since nn is currently the default news tion" screen (Figure 1) will display a help you get started quickly: i.e. the reader. list of active groups. Use your arrow -z option tells Tin to start only if keys or the QJ and @ keys to move there are new or unread articles; the To do this select Special Utilities, then your cursor through the list line by -q option tells Tin not to check for File Preferences, then Change News line, or move through the list page by new newsgroups; and the-n option Reader, then Tin. When you return page using [Ctrl]- D (down) and [Ctrl]- U tells Tin to display only groups listed to the main menu, Tin should be (up). To view a particular group, as subscribed to in your .newsrc flle. specified in the brackets after the move your cursor to that group and "Usenet News" menu item. press [Return]. ... Information Services January 1995 Page 135
Figure 1: Tin's "Group Selection Screen"
Group Selection (news.cis.umn.edu 42) h=help
1 124 alt.aldus.pagemaker Don' t use expensive user support 2 39 alt.ufo.reports Like alt.paranet.ufo,only dif 3 67 comp.internet.net-happenings Network announcements 4 188 rec .music. tori-amos Discussion of the singer 5 19 soc.history.living Living history and reenactment 6 alt.soc.comets 7 31 alt.tv.picket-fences The Picket Fences show. 8 6 urnn. tc. systems systems announcements,discussion 9 1 comp.sys.mac.prograrnrner.info Frequently requested information 10 16 rec. arts. books. reviews Book reviews. (Moderated) 11 64 rec .music .makers. bands For musicians who play in groups
Figure 2: List of Threads
alt.aldus.pagemaker (48T 92A OK OH R) h=help
1 + seeking employment advice Therese Maus 2 + PM5 to HTML ? Shing-Te Li 3 + 2 comparing version Julie Clark 4 + Pagemaker 4.1/5.0 fony problem RavenGraph 5 + 5 PM5.0 and Word 6.0 James Davis 6 + 2 graphics Saam Barrager 7 + 3 PageMaker to HTML file ? davids. broudy 8 + 4 Extracting text from Mac PM5 Paolo G. Cordone 9 + New PageMaker 5.0 utilies for MAC? Sean M. Vadas 16 + 2 PM5 upgrade Richard S.Keirste
Reading Articles of articles in the thread; the title of the Posting & Replying Mter you've selected a group, a list of first article in the thread, and the To post an article to the newsgroup, threads will be displayed in the thread author of that original article. use the "w" command. To follow-up menu for that group (Figure 2). At a specific article, use the "f" com the top of the screen the group title is Use your arrow keys or the (I] and @ mand. displayed along with the number of keys to move through the list of threads (e.g. 48T) and total number threads, and select the one you wish of articles (e.g. 92A) in the group. to read by placing your cursor on it Other Options and pressing (Return I. Individual articles or entire threads Each thread is represented by one line can be mailed using the "m" com which describes, from left to right, While reading an article, press [Return! mand and saved using the "s" com the thread number; a code indicating to move to the next article in the mand. if the thread has been read or not thread. ("+"means it is unread); the number Page 136 January 1995 Computer and ...
Training Update: 625·1300
Distributed Comput 0 Module 2, Beyond Basics: learn to Windows & Mac ing Services owns understand the System Folder, create aliases, open IBM-PC files, share files training packages for T Excel 5.0 using PowerTalk and AppleShare, many popu1ar automate tasks with AppleScript. We purchased a video training series software products. from MacAcademyjWindowsArcade. The We recently purchased topics covered in each tape are the same whether you use Windows on an IBM T Excel 5.0 the packages listed below. compatible or use a Macintosh. Audio training from Personal Training Systems. 0 Tape 1: learn about installation, These training packages are available workbook, cells, tabs, worksheets, 0 Module 1, Beginning: learn to enter to University of Minnesota depart function tool, formulas, templates, words, numbers and percentages; create ments and current employees and relative mode, paste special, absolute formulas and functions; format numbers students. There is no fee for using reference, auto fill, tool menu, tool bar, and words; preview and print spread tip wizard, RAM memory, password, file these packages, and you may check sheets; create and use templates. them out for 48 hours. However, types, summary info, page setup, printing, headers/footers, print page before you can check them out, you 0 Module 2, Intermediate: learn how to order, shortcuts. must sign a Usage Agreement and auto-fill using custom lists; use styles and create number formats; draw graphic leave your University of Minnesota ID 0 Tape 2: learn about names, calcula objects and create text boxes; sort lists with us. We will return your ID when tion, functions, function wizard, rows, and modify outlines. you return the training materials. delete/insert, spelling checker, tools, name definitions, sorting, clear, move/ 0 Module 3, Advanced: create function copy, find, find/replace, tool bar, view and 3-D formulas; use absolute refer manager, page break, notes, format Reservations Required ences and define named ranges; protect cells, column width, custom format, To reserve or check out these materi and audit spreadsheets; use macros. datejtime, update function, time frames. als, phone 625-1300 or stop in our 0 Module 4, Charts & Databases: create 0 Tape 3: learn text alignment, borders, Shepherd Labs office in room 190, and modify charts; use find and replace M-F, 8 am to 4 pm. patterns/colors, quick data path, protect command; use autofilter; extract records document, rename sheet, auto format, from a database. style, tools menu, circular references, Unless you use our Self-Paced Train payment calculations, goal seek, daisy ing Centers, you must supply your chain calculation, page setup, RICI own equipment, such as computer T Word 6 notations, numbered worksheets, colors, and cassette player, and software, such Audio training from Personal Training hiding, edit titles, logic statements, profit Systems. as Microsoft Word or Windows, to worksheets, error messages. use these training materials. 0 Module 1, Beginning: learn to enter 0 Tape 4: learn about checkbook, cell and edit text, create headers and footers, protection, logic statement, linking, check spelling and print documents; rename, re-establishing links, change Training Center Hours change the appearance of text and set links, arrays, complex link, database, Location Monday-Friday tabs; use Wizards to create documents extract information, wild card, P&L quickly. 1 Nicholson Hall 8 am to 7 pm statement, outline, tables, sort, subto 99 Coffey Hall 9 am to 4 pm tals, filter, charts, format data series. 0 Module 2, Intermediate: create tables; add borders and shading; generate 0 Tape 5: learn about charts, hot spots, automatically numbered lists; use styles drawing tools, text, group, macros, visual Macintosh to format text quickly; use proofing tools basic, run macros, alert command, debug to proof documents. macro, payment macro, custom tool T System 7.5 bars, custom tools, buttons, function Audio training from Personal Training 0 Module 3, Advanced: use AutoFormat macro, dialog editor, custom menu. Systems. and templates to quickly format entire documents; create newspaper-style 0 Module 1, Basics: for the new user columns; add graphics to documents; who wants to learn to use the equipment use Word's Find File command and and operating system, start application sorting capabilities; generate form programs, get on-line help, and perform letters. tasks common to all applications. Computer Facilities: 'Winter Quarter 1995
January 3 to March 18, 1995. Most facilities will be closed for the Martin Luther King Holiday (January 16).
Building Room Phone Classes Hours: Weekday Hours: Weekend Notes
East Bank Preliminary Schedule 0 Students have free access to these microcomputer facilities.
T Microcomputer facilities managed by Distributed Computing Services: contact Jerry Larson at 625-7850. Eddy Hall Annex 54 625-0314 M-Th * Sat * *To reopen soon. Fri * Sun * Elliott Hall 121 624-0866 t M-Th 9 am--8 pm closed Fri 9 am-5 pm Folwell Hall 14 625-4896 t M-Th 8 am-10 pm Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun 4 pm-10 pm Lind Hall• 26 626-0856 t M-Th 8 am-midnight Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun noon-midnight Watch for 24-hour schedule to be posted the 6th week of each quarter. Walter Library 9 626-1899 t M-Th 8 am-midnight Sat 10am-6 pm Fri 8 am--8 pm Sun noon-midnight
T Microcomputer facilities managed by other departments. Moos Tower 8-425 - M-Th 8 am-5:30pm closed Contact: Gail Vandermerwe, 625-1477 Fri 8 am-4:30pm
0 IT Computer Facilities for IT students only. • For eligibility and fee details see the Institute of Technology Computer Facilities brochure. • Problems? Report to lab attendant. Report unanswered questions to [email protected] EE/CSci 3-166 624-8885 M-Th 7 am-2 am Fri Sat 10 am-2 am Sun Fri 7 am-midnight Sun 10 am-2 am Mon EE/CSci 4-204 625-9081 M-Th 7 am-2 am Fri Sat 10 am-2 am Sun Fri 7 am-midnight Sun 10 am-2 am Mon Mech. Eng. 308 625-7352 M-Th 7 am-2 am Fri Sat 10 am-2 am Sun Fri 7 am-midnight Sun 10 am-2 am Mon Physics 130 625-6820 t M-Th 8 am-10 pm Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun 4 pm-10 pm
0 Students have free access to these terminal facilities.
Diehl Hall 278 - limited access limited access Contact: 626-4045 Nicholson 1 625-5082 M-F 8 am-6 pm closed Contact: Mike Dunham, 625-7397
Computer and Information Services Newsletter Page 137 Distributed Computing Services Computer Facilities: Winter QJtarter 1995
January 3 to March 18, 1995. Most facilities will be closed for the Martin Luther King Holiday (January 16).
Building Room Phone Classes Hours: Weekday Hours: Weekend Notes
West Bank Preliminar y Schedule 0 Students have free access to these microcomputer facilities.
T Microcomputer facilities managed by Distributed Computing Services: contact Shu-Fan DeJarlais at 624..0877. H. Humphrey Ctr 50 624-6526 M-Th 8 am-midnight Sat 10 am-8 pm Fri 8 am-10 pm Sun noon-11:30 pm
T Microcomputer facilities managed by Distributed Computing Services: contact Jamil Jabr at 624-7766. Blegen Hallt 455 626-7778 t M-Th 8 am-10 pm Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun noon-5 pm
St. Paul
0 Students have free access to these microcomputer facilities.
T Microcomputer facilities managed by Distributed Computing Services: contact Jamil Jabr at 624-7766. Central Library B50 624-3269 t M-Th 8 am-10 pm Sat 10:30 arn-4:30 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun 4 pm-10 pm Classroom Office Bldg. 135 624-9226 t M-Th 8 am-10 pm Sat 10am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun 4 pm-10 pm Classroom Office Bldg. 17 626-1252 t M-Th 8 am-midnight Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun noon-midnight McNeal Hallt 305 624-5367 t M-Th 8 am-midnight Sat 10 am-6 pm Fri 8 am-6 pm Sun noon-midnight
T Microcomputer facilities managed by other departments. Vet. Science 450 624-4281 M-Th 8 am-9:30pm Sat 9 am-5 pm Contact: Uvija Carlson, 624-3078 Fri 8 am-5 pm Sun 1 pm-9 pm
Printing is Not Free Misc. Notes Internet and CIS network A Printer Access Card is required to t Instructors can reserve these labs for Through the Computer and Information obtain output in all microcomputer instructional use; contact the depart Services network, these Computer facilities and laser or plotter output in ment responsible for the lab. Facilities can access the Internet, IT Computer Facilities. LUMINA, E-mail, and other Central System computers, e.g., EPX, NVE, + These labs are frequently scheduled UZ, VX, VZ, VM1, and the School of Central Systems printing is charged for classroom use. Call before Management's IBM mainframe. against Central Systems accounts. making plans to use these facilities.
Computer and Information Services Newsletter Page 138 Distributed Computing Services Last revised January 1995 Free Help: Computing and Information Technologies Phone Help Line Hours
Central Systems These systems require a user name and password, which you get when you open an account. Qualified users can apply for grants to cover some computing related costs. 0 EPX (Unix), NVE (NOS/VE), UZ (Uitrix), VX and VZ (VMS) ...... 626-8366 ...... M-F ...... 9 am to 4 pm 0 VM1 (IBM/CMS) 99B Coffey Hall walk-in consulting hours may vary .... 624-6235 ...... M-F ...... 9-11 am, 2-4 pm 0 MEDLINE (MinnesotaMEDLINE on NVE) ...... 626-8366 ...... M-F ...... 9 am to 4 pm
Distributed Systems: Microcomputers, Workstations, LANs Software, hardware, peripherals, local area networks ...... 626-4276 ...... M-F ...... 9 am to 4 pm 0 East Bank ...... 152 Shepherd Labs ...... above ...... above ..... above 0 West Bank ...... 93 Blegen ...... above ...... above ..... 1 pm to 4 pm 0 St. Paul ...... 58 Biological Sciences Center ...... above ...... above ..... 1 pm to 4 pm E-mail and LUMINA 0 E-mail: call for help using your University account...... 626-7676 ...... M-F ...... 9 am to 4 pm Forgot your password? Staff: call 626-8366. Students: go to any Computer Facility- e.g., 14 Folwell, 26 Lind, 305 McNeai,HHH 50. Troubleshooting: if Maroon or Gold are down, you'll hear a status report at 626-1819. 0 LUMINA: call if you have trouble connecting ...... 626-7676 ...... M-F ...... 9 am to 4 pm
Computer Services Information ...... 625-1555 ...... any day .. any time
General Information Access Information
Williamson Hall Book Center SLIP: 2400/14,400------626-1920 Computer Dept ...... 625-3854 SLIP: ADI-100 and ITE (with MKO) 3-0291 (inventory and prices also available on Internet Gopher) S Terminal settings for 0 Internet addresses. University Computing and Information Services these systems are 8-1-N 0 Dial-in Server: 626-0300, Administrative Information Svcs. (AIS) Help desk ... 4-0555 (8 data bits, 1 stop bit, -1200, -2400, -4800, -9600 no parity) unless other Biomedical Graphics, various locations ...... 6-3939 0 At 9600 Telecomm wise noted. The number Central Computing Services, 100 LaudCF ...... 6-1600 supports V.32 and MNP you dial may depend on Accounts: EPX, NVE (incl MEDLINE), UZ, VX, VZ .. 6-8366 level 5 error correction. Data Entry ...... 6-8351 the modem's bps or 0 On campus ADI-100 and Statistics Services ...... 5-2303 baud rate. ITE setups use 626-2400. System Status ...... 6-1819 Tape Librarian ...... 6-1838 LUMINA: 300/1200/2400 ...... 625-6009 a Computer Facilities (also call individual facilities) .. 5-1300 V.32 ...... 4-7539 8 _FoiH5-4896 _Lind6-0856 _McN4-5367 _HHH4-6526 +more Disability and Computing Services, voice/TTY ...... 6-0365 Tel net & tn3270 PUB INFO. AIS. UMN. EDU 0 Distributed Computing Services, 190 Shep Labs .... 5-1300 E-mail and Internet Service and Servers, Twin Cities Engineering Services, 103 LaudCF ...... 5-1595 ------GOLD.TC.UMN.EDU 0 Equipment Repair and Warranties ...... 5-1595 MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU 0 Faculty Resource Center (for appointment) ...... 5-1300 Gopher, alternate access (log in as gopher) Gopher Hotel (server set up for a fee) ...... 5-2303 300, 1200, 2400, 9600 ...... see Dial-in Server a Kodak Printer Service ...... 6-1661 St. Paul Computing Services, 50 CofH ...... 4-7788 ------CONSULTANT.MICRO.UMN.EDU 0 Accounts: VM1 (IBM/CMS) ...... 4-7788 Consulting via E-mail: low priority Central System ques Tape Librarian ...... 4-3482 Format _ CONSULT@MACHINE. NAME. UMN. EDU Statistics Services ...... 4-6235 AIS SecureiD V.32 ...... 626-1061 a Software Services (contract programming) ...... 5-2303 3oo;12oo;24oo ...... s-n1o a Supercomputer Center Help, 3030 SCC ...... 6-0808 tn3270 & Telnet __ ADMIN .AIS. UMN. EDU 0 Telecommunications, 30 TelecomS EPX, NVE (includes MEDLINE), UZ, VX, VZ Networking Services Information ...... 6-7800 Networking Services Repair ...... 5-0006 300, 1200, 2400, 9600 ...... see Dial-in Server a Training, Course Registration, 190 ShepLab ...... 5-1300 EPX or UZ or VX or VZ or NVE. CIS. UMN. EDU 0 U Libraries, Integrated Information Center ...... 4-2020 EPX, NVE: 300/1200/2400 ...... 625-1445 a University Networking Services, 130 Lind ...... 5-8888 up to 19.2 campus data phone ...... 3-2400 a VM1 (IBM/CMS) at 7-1-even Associate Vice President and 96oo ...... 624-3668 a Associate Provost Academic Affairs 1200/2400 & <19.2 campus data phone .. 4-4220 Donald R. Riley, Professor ...... 626-9816 a ______VMl.SPCS.UMN.EDU 0
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