(This README has not been revised in a long time and, as there are now other sources, it is kept around mostly for historical purposes.) From: joke@Germany.EU.net (Joerg Heitkoetter) Originator: joke@Germany.EU.net (Joerg Heitkoetter) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,de.newusers.questions,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.infosystems,comp.infosystems.www,alt.folklore.computers,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,alt.internet.services,k12.ed.tech,k12.ed.comp.literacy Subject: FAQ: EFF's (Extended) Guide 2.3, Life, and Everything... Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Date: Summary: This posting tells you everything you ought to know about an exciting project that helps so-called Newbies to survive their first year on The Net. It gets you softly into most of the often severe details of mindboggling complexity that popup when you're hooked into The Net. It is also intended to help you get around the trap doors, avoid pitfalls and other non-funny things (e.g. local gurus that laugh at you), you'll encounter during life as a Netizen in Cyberspace. It is styled after a FAQ list, ie. "Frequently Asked Questions and their respective Answers". Keywords: Internet, Big Dummy's Guide, Newbies, Introduction, Babelfish, Help, EFF The-FAQ-Version: 13 Day-of-Last-Change: September 13, 1994 Period-of-posting: quarterly parody /'paeredi/ n. & v. -- n. (pl. -ies) 1 a humorous exaggerated imitation of an author, literary work, style, etc. 2 a feeble imitation; a travesty. -- v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 compose a parody of. 2 mimic humorously. --- The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary Ahoy! This is a reminder to get your hands on a copy of "EFF's Guide to the Internet", either the original or extended version(s). It's your free ticket to a round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything... So, SYSTEM ADMINSTRATORS everywhere: Get this for your LOCAL DUMMIES! Throw printouts into your terminal pools, install it online, do whatever you want, only *selling* it without permission is NOT ALLOWED! This electronic version comes for FREE! The easiest way to get the original ASCII-only version is by sending any e-mail to netguide@eff.org; in return the guide comes split into several pieces. However, there're many more elaborate versions available. Read on! -=- * -=- * COPYRIGHT? Copyright 1993, 1994 Electronic Frontier Foundation, all rights reserved. -=- * -=- * REDISTRIBUTION? The guide is available free of charge from the EFF online archives at ftp.eff.org, gopher.eff.org, http://www.eff.org, EFF BBS (+1 202 638 6120), AOL keyword EFF, CIS EFFSIG forum, and elsewhere (see below for list of mirror sites). This guide may be freely reproduced & distributed electronically or in hardcopy, provided the following conditions are met: 1) Please do not qualitatively modify the guide, and leave all copyright, distribution, attribution, and EFF information intact. Permission expressly granted for translation to other languages and conversion to other formats. 2) EFF has signed a contract with MIT Press to publish a hardcopy book version of the guide, entitled _Everybody's_Guide_to_the_Internet_. All other for-profit distribution of printed versions of the guide is forbidden, unless permitted in writing. Non-English hardcopy editions may appear in the future. However, you may print out copies and recoup the cost of printing and distribution by charging a nominal fee. 3) Any for-profit non-paper distribution (such as shareware vendor diskettes, CD-ROM collections, etc.) must be approved by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the time- and usage-based access fees of online services, bulletin boards, and network access providers are specifically exempted). Donations appreciated. 4) You may not charge a for-profit fee specifically for this guide, only for a collection containing the guide, with the exeception of a nominal copying charge (online usage fees exempted, as above). The Electronic Frontier Foundation 1001 G Street NW, Suite 950 E Washington DC 20001 USA +1 202 347 5400 (voice) +1 202 393 5509 (fax) +1 202 638 6120 (BBS) FidoNet: 1:109/1108 Internet: ask@eff.org Internet fax gate: remote-printer.EFF@9.0.5.5.3.9.3.2.0.2.1.tpc.int NOTICE: Portions of the additional material that has been added to the Guide for the "Extended" version are individually copyrighted parts of the distribution; all others are Copyright (c) 1994 Electronic Frontier Foundation. See the accompanying LICENSE/policy.texi file for distribution policy and specific copyright information for these "extras" if you wish to reprint or redistribute them apart from the Extended Guide. -=- * -=- * WHAT ABOUT AN OVERVIEW OF THIS FAQ LIST? Enclosed in this posting you'll find 5 files from the Texinfo version (cf below) of The Guide: (0) NEWS, some informational stuff, that explains what happened since the last issue of this posting/FAQ/README; the most recent changes and whatever... (1) WELCOME, the original, official welcome message by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Mitchell Kapor; the foundation that hired Adam Gaffin for this writing job. (2) README, a file that answers most of your questions concerning the Texinfo project of The Guide. (3) SERVERS, a file that lists all Internet resources/locations The Guide is accessible from; either as simple file(s), or as online readable HyperText multimedia book! (4) VERSIONS, a file, ie. a table, that lists all the currently available versions of The Guide (cf README for the differences). (5) CREDITS, a list of all the people (consciously and unconsciously) involved in this project. If I should have forgotten you, please I'd regret it. Please, drop me your address once again. (6) POLICY, terms and conditions under which the sources of The Guide are distributed. -=- * -=- * WHERE'S A WORLD-WIDE WEB TEST-DRIVE INSTALLATION? For a test drive, point your favorite Worl Wide Web client to URL: "http://www.Germany.EU.net/books/eegtti/eegtti.html" therein you'll find some maps that contain the other W3 sites around the globe. This Guide is the most read on a global scale! North American users may find "http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti.html" faster, it being closer. -=- * -=- * WHAT ABOUT UPDATES? The Guide was published by MIT Press as "Everybody's Guide to the Internet" in July 1994. Adam Gaffin continues to update the book on a monthly basis; look for "Everybody's Internet Update" postings on USENET, in newsgroups alt.internet.services and comp.org.eff.talk. You can subscribe to a mailing list, and then have updates automatically delivered to you. Email subscription works by sending a message body of "subscribe net-update" [no quotes] to listserv@eff.org -=- * -=- * SO, WHAT'Z THE PROBLEM? (with apologies to Douglas Adams) There are of course many problems connected with young ape-descended life forms, of which some of the most popular are `What is life all about?' `Will I ever be able really to understand young ape-descended life forms of the oppopsite sex?' And `What is EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet?' The Encyclopedia Galactica defines the "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as a mostly interesting attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people. The marketing division of Sirius Cybernectics Corporation defines "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as `Your Electronic Online Pal Who's Fun To Be With.' The Texinfo editor of "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet" defines it as `The Best Stuff I've Been Involved In Since Breakfast.' Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the "EFF's Guide to the Internet" as a mostly interesting but useless attempt by the EFF to bring knowledge to the people...? -=- * -=- * WHO WROTE IT? This Guide, originally written by Adam Gaffin, then a senior news reporter of Middlesex News, Boston, MA, comes in an easily understood language, and provides almost all information you'll ever need to survive when you get stranded in this mindboggling universe called Internet, ie. the Net of all Nets on this crazy planet. So take this writing as kind of electronic Babelfish, that helps you to understand what the hell everybody out there is talking about. -=- * -=- * WILL I BE ABLE TO READ IT? The Guide is available (in one format at least) for all currently running computer architectures, from Amiga to CRAY, although some IBM EBCDIC main- frames might have problems with the ASCII versions. But usually you won't work with these anyway. (And thus won't have to worry what EBCDIC is all about...) It comes in printable (TeX DVI, PostScript, ASCII) and electronically readable formats (World-Wide Web/HTML, GNU Info). You will definitely be able to read one version at least! -=- * -=- * WHERE DO I FIND The Guide? The Guide actually *is* wide-spread, globally speaking; distribution site locations range from KOREA to JAPAN to AUSTRALIA to USA to CANADA to the UNITED KINGDOM to GERMANY to SWITZERLAND to AUSTRIA to BETELGEUZE to SOUTH AFRICA to RUSSIA. Only LATIN AMERICA is missing at present. So what about the Southern hemisphere, folks? Where are you, Netizens? (The complete list is appended below.) -=- * -=- * HOW CAN I CONTRIBUTE? If you find any mistakes/typos/inaccuracies/whatever in this posting drop me a mail; if you have newer information than that listed below drop me a mail; if you have questions, please folks, *READ THE GUIDE FIRST*, it's all in there. Given you're a system/ftp/WWW administrator: Please consider installation of The Guide on your site; and please let me know. The more sites carry The Guide, the sooner these postings will go away... ;-) Anyway, enjoy the trip! Ciao, -joke === ____ === Jörg Heitkötter === / / / ___ ___ _/_ === joke@Germany.EU.net === /---- / / / / /___/ / === EUnet Deutschland GmbH === /____ /___/ / / /___ / === Emil-Figge-Str. 80 ===== ===== D-44227 Dortmund ===== Connecting Europe since 1982 ===== Voce/Faxe +49-231-972 -2222/-1111 -=- * -=- --- eegtti/$Id: README,v 2.3 1994/08/14 13:24:40 joke Rel $ SPREAD THE WORD: "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet is now available, in a variety of easily convertible formats *and* at your local laser printer." -=- * -=- * WHAT IS EFF's (EXTENDED) GUIDE TO THE INTERNET? The extended version of The Guide is a Texinfo [t:ekinfo] (NOT TeXinfo!!) edition of a book once entitled "Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet", that was recently (July 1994) renamed to "EFF's Guide to the Internet." The latter was written by Adam Gaffin for a joint project of Apple Computer, Inc. and The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The extended version is a gift from the author of this FAQ to the EFF, and contains (a) the Guide, and (b) many more things either from the Net, or from the many kind souls who sent in their pieces. -=- * -=- * WHERE DO I GET THE HYPERCARD STACK? In the beginning (August 1993), Steve Cisler courtesy of the Apple Library, used a Macintosh computer and converted Adam's original writing into a so-called HyperCard stack; this stack, readable by the HyperCard software that comes bundled with every Mac, is still available via anonymous FTP from EFF's server "ftp.eff.org" as file "big-dummys-guide.sea.hqx" in the "/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Old/" directory. However, this version is completely out of date; if you're a passionate Apple/HyperCard hacker and want to volunteer in creating an up-to-date version, please send e-mail to ask@eff.org. -=- * -=- * ARE THERE MORE VERSIONS? Under "ftp.eff.org/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Other_versions/ there reside several other formats created by volunteers, e.g. AmigaGuide (Extended), MS-Windows Help (orig.), WordPerfect (orig.), Setext/ETX (orig.) and GeoWorks Write (PC) formats. The latter by Adam himself (cf. VERSIONS below). Some contain the "Extended" text; some the original/core manual text only. -=- * -=- * AND THE ORIGINAL ASCII? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? Also available in the same directory is Adam's original ASCII version "netguide.eff" (currently at version 2.3) that served as the starting point for this Texinfo based release. Besides several "bug fixes," witty quotes, corrections, including some complete rewrites (cf Chapter 8) and the new layout, some more value has been added; notably, two personal articles from EFFector Online, the EFF's bi-weekly news magazine (available in comp.org.eff.news on USENET), now serving as superb afterwords, and some other contributions of Netizens I found quite worthwhile reading over the past years: -=- * -=- * NOW, WHAT'S IN THERE? * "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold describes the social life on the Internet from the WELL's point of view. * "A Statement of Principle" by SF author Bruce Sterling discusses some moral and legal issues you will definitely get to know when becoming a "cybernaut" on Internet. * "Preserving and Promoting the `Internet Culture'" by Peter Deutsch explains some of the cultural background Netizens used to live in. * "Subject: TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt shows , that even the non-virtual world (a.k.a. "reality") finally got interested in cyberspace, and the cybernauts on Internet. * "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Grag Chartrand *parodies* the NSF's proposed US National Education and Research Network. Moreover a bibliography has been stuffed into this edition: * A comprehensive list of Paperware related to the Internet (This is an updated version of the bibliography section that comes with the first edition of "Zen and the Art of the Internet" by Brendan Kehoe, plus part of the reference section of Henry Edward Hardy's Master's Thesis "The History of the Net" written at the School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401. Version 7.2 was posted to comp.org.eff.talk on August 28, 1993). Kevin Savetz' "Unofficial Internet Book List" will also find its way into this list, soon. -=- * -=- This guide is some 260 European A4 size pages in length, (i.e. some 300 US-letter size pages) and divided into the following sections: * A 5 part Introduction - G'day by the Texinfo editor - Welcome by Mitchell Kapor, EFF - Foreword by Mitchell Kapor, EFF - Addendum to Foreword by Mitchell Kapor and Jerry Berman, EFF - Preface by Adam Gaffin, Middlesex News, Boston, MA, USA. * A 13 part Walk-trough-the-Internet Chapter 1 -- Setting up, Getting connected, Jacking in... Chapter 2 -- Electronic Mail Chapter 3 -- Usenet: the Global Watering Hole Chapter 4 -- Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles Chapter 5 -- Mailing Lists and Bitnet Chapter 6 -- Telnet (Mining the Net, part I) Chapter 7 -- FTP (Mining the Net, part II) Chapter 8 -- Gophers, WAISs, and the World-Wide Web Chapter 9 -- Advanced E-mail Chapter 10 -- News of the World Chapter 11 -- IRC, MUDs, and other things... Chapter 12 -- Education on the Net Chapter 13 -- Business on the Net * A 6 part Afterword - "Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin - "A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold - "A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling - "Preserving and Promoting the `Internet Culture'" by Peter Deutsch - "Subject: TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt - "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand * A Bibliography - Paperware on the Internet: A comprehensive list of over 200 (sic!) literary references of books, papers, magazines, newspaper bits, and electronically published texts, all of them related to the Internet and similar topics. * 5 Appendices - Appendix on Internet Jargon - Appendix by Ms. Emily Postnews - Appendix on The Electronic Frontier Foundation - Appendix on Internet Connectivity (ISO 3166/Internet Society) - Appendix on Smileys: "The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary" * 4 Indexes - E-mail addresses mentioned - Internet Sites mentioned - Commands, Suffixes, and Tools mentioned - General Index -=- * -=- * WHY DO YOU WANT THIS? Why do you want this? Well, for one thing, it's better than Bloomfield's "99 more things to do in zero gravity", and then it's free. So what else do you expect? Ok, for an encore: it definitely saves you some time and trouble: traditionally, users learned by word of mouth, stumbling upon things, being trapped by dozens of pitfalls, and laughed at by systems wizards. These times are OVER! This guide should serve as a first straw to clutch at when you're stranded in this mindboggling universe called Internet, and are curious about what else can be done. It also presents the fundamental topics on a "rookie" level that are all too often assumed and considered trivial by many more experienced network users/admins/gurus. -=- * -=- * WHERE DO YOU GET IT? As mentioned before, it is available from the EFF's FTP server "ftp.eff.org" in the "/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/" directory. Or check out the European default server "ftp.Germany.EU.net" in "/pub/books/eff-guide". See below for instructions on "How to configure The Guide". AND read the SERVERS file that comes with the Texinfo distribution for more servers than you probably ever need... -=- * -=- * DISTRIBUTION DIRECTORY: |-README // FAQ file |-README.VMS // help for VMS folks |-extended-guide-|-eegtti-2.3.ps.gz // PostScript |-eegtti-2.3.dvi.gz // TeX DVI file |-eegtti-2.3-US.dvi.gz // TeX DVI US paper |-eegtti-2.3-US.ps.gz // TeX PS US paper |-eegtti-2.3.info.gz // GNU Info file |-eegtti-2.3.txt.gz // TEXT file |-eegtti-2.3.html.tar.gz // HTML (WWW) files |-eegtti-2.3.amiga.lha // AmigaGuide files |-eegtti-2.3.tar.gz // all Texinfo sources Both sites can uncompress the files "on the fly", i.e., you do not need to have the GNU gunzip utility. Just get the files without the ".gz" extension: get eegtti-2.3.ps instead of: get eegtti-2.3.ps.gz -=- * -=- * WHAT ARE ALL THESE FILES? Now, how to read it. The file eegtti-2.3.dvi is a DVI (DeVice Independent) file created by the TeX typesetting system. Filters exist to convert these DVI files into printer-specific files for a variety of printers. Also included is the file eegtti-2.3.ps, a PostScript version. eegtti-2.3.txt is the plain ASCII version of eegtti-2.3.info, ie. the latter can be browsed either using EMACS in INFO mode, or any GNU info browser, e.g. "info", or "xinfo". Just type "info -f eegtti-2.3.info" and there you go. For the folks who want to print the PS version on a Hewlett-Packard laser printer with Postscript option, take care. You cannot print the file double-sided, which results in "0.5in upwards shifted" even pages; but printing it single-paged is ok. This is obvioulsy due to a bug in the HP-printer's firmware, and was reported by Ed Moore of HP, using a LaserJet 4Si (with PostScript option, of course). Dawn Cooley reported troubles with a Texas Instruments microLaser Turbo. After downloading Adobe's error handler, The Guide printed fine. The tar file with suffix ".html" contains The Guide in some 300 files in HyperText Markup Language format. They can be thrown into your system's World-Wide Web directory, and then browsed using the various WWW tools. E.g. from within NCSA Mosaic "Load Local" eeg_toc.html, and there you go! An alternative is to set the default home page environment variable with: "setenv WWW_HOME eeg_toc.html" which makes The Guide the HOME page (press the HOME button to get back to the top) on startup. (Well, at least when NCSA Mosaic is installed on your system. If it's not, BUG YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR! He obviously missed the leading edge of today's infosystems technologies.) In the tar file eegtti-2.3.tar.gz (a gzip'ed tar file---ask YOUR LOCAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR and/or Unix guru how to extract the files from this), there are a number of files suffixed by ".texi". These are all the Texinfo sources to this guide. A print-it- yourself-kit. If set-up properly you can make it print the Guide in any PostScript font you like. But we'll leave this as an excercise for the upcoming hacker generation. New in the collection is eegtti-2.3.amiga.lha, an archive containing the AmigaGuide (cf VERSIONS below) version of the book. -=- * -=- * FYI: WHAT IS TeX? FYI: TeX is a free typesetting system by Don Knuth of Stanford; the source of which you can FTP or buy on a tape. Texinfo is a package of macros written on top of TeX by the GNU Project for easy manual creation. See the FTP Chapter in The Guide on how to obtain TeX (e.g. ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/packages/TeX). -=- * -=- * HOW TO CREATE A DVI FILE? Well, first you must configure The Guide to produce a US letter size, or a European A4 paper size version: this can easily be done with the provided "configure" shell script (C-shell), eg.: example % configure --letter Or: example % configure --a4 which results in the following message from "configure": EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet [Texinfo edition 2.3, cm font] *** configured for A4 paper size. Note, that "example %" represents your system's input prompt, that might look different for you, eg. on MS-DOS you're used to seeing something like C:\DUMMY> You might also configure The Guide "by hand", e.g. for the letter size version: example % cp config/Makefile.us Makefile example % cp config/eegtti.us eegtti.texi And for the A4 version: example % cp config/Makefile.a4 Makefile example % cp config/eegtti.a4 eegtti.texi To create a DVI file of your own (e.g. to produce an A4 paper version), simply run "texi2dvi" on eegtti.texi twice; or use the Makefile included; it does almost *everything* for you (...although "make coffee" doesn't work, yet). All there is to do is to type: example % make dvi It's really that easy! (If you have the appropriate tools installed, and a *real* operating system running on your box...) -=- * -=- * MORE ON CONFIGURATIONS? The general usage of the "configure" script is as follows: usage: configure -- --font --a4/--letter for (a4) --font times/palatino/bookman/etc. for (cm) e.g.: configure --a4 --font palatino which results in the following message from "configure": EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet [Texinfo edition 2.3, palatino font] *** configured for A4 paper size. This means you can also set the PostScript font that are contained in the "fonts" directory; you must also have a recent version of Tom Rockicki's dvips(1) program installed on your system. -=- * -=- * WHAT ABOUT A GNU INFO FILE? Well, some moons have passed since edition 1.00, and now it's there! But you need to patch "makeinfo v1.55" with the included "makeinfo-1.55. patch" file, and compile it with "-DJOKES=1" defined. Then type "make info" for the Info, and "make txt" for a TEXT/ASCII version. -=- * -=- * HOW TO CREATE THE HTML FILES? Just say "make html" which runs "texi2html" on "eegtti.texi" and creates a bunch of HTML files; Note that "texi2html" needs Larry Wall's "perl" program to be installed on your system. Maybe you need to edit the first line in the perl script "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" to whatever directory "perl" is installed on your system. The next version won't need Lionel Cons' texi2html script anymore; Texinfo will support HTML+ in "native" mode! -=- * -=- * HOW TO HANDLE TYPOS, MISTAKES, AND OTHER BUGS? Given, that this is an ever-changing effort, some "bugs" or other "quirks" are inevitable, that might have been overlooked during Texinfo production. If you find something, drop me an e-mail; if you have any comments or questions, want to make further additions or corrections, please send "all-your-stuff" to the address below. I'll probably include them into future releases of this guide. Thanx in advance for your patience! -=- * -=- * THE CURRENT TEXINFO EDITOR/COORDINATOR? Yours, -joke === ____ === Jörg Heitkötter === / / / ___ ___ _/_ === joke@Germany.EU.net === /---- / / / / /___/ / === EUnet Deutschland GmbH === /____ /___/ / / /___ / === Emil-Figge-Str. 80 ===== ===== D-44227 Dortmund ===== Connecting Europe since 1982 ===== Tel.(Fax) +49 231 972 2222 (1111) --- eegtti/$Id: SERVERS,v 2.3 1994/08/14 13:24:43 joke Rel $ -=- * -=- "A map of the world without Utopia is not worth glancing at." -- Oscar Wilde -=- * -=- This file lists the currently (September 1994) officially available electronic archive sites/services, that either distribute "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet", or let you browse through it using the latest of infosystems technologies... Please note that the Texinfo based version (below addressed as "The Guide") is different from the original ASCII version, (cf the README for more info on this issue). -=- * -=- * THE WHOLE STORY COMPRESSED The Guide comes in a variety of formats: PostScript (.ps), TeX DVI (.dvi), GNU Info (.info), plain text (.txt), HyperText Markup Language (.html), AmigaGuide (.amiga) and the complete source distribution (including some patch files - you'll need to use Makeinfo-1.55, and texi2html-1.30) bundled in a tar file (.tar). Depending on the system adminstrator, ie. the disk space he's willing to give away for The Guide, these files will be stored in one of some dozen of compression "flavors". Thus, here's an excerpt from the FTP chapter of The Guide, that explains the whole story: FTP (Mining the Net, part II) ***************************** [..] There are a wide variety of compression methods in use. You can tell which method was used by the last one to three letters at the end of a file. Here are some of the more common ones and what you'll need to un-compress the files they create (and these decompression programs can all be located through archie). `.txt' `.TXT' By itself, this means the file is a document, rather than a program. `.ps' `.PS' A PostScript document (in Adobe's page description language). You can print this file on any PostScript capable printer, or use a previewer, like GNU project's GhostScript. `.doc' `.DOC' Is another common suffix for documents. No de-compression is needed, unless it is followed by `.z' A file compressed by the Unix `pack' utility. It uses Huffman coding (which minimizes redundancy) on each byte. Type `unpack filename.z' or `gunzip filename.z' to decompress it. This suffix was also briefly used to indicate gzip files before `.gz' was adopted. However, some sites *still* use this suffix for gzip files due to local set-ups. `.Z' This is a Unix compression method. To uncompress the file, type `uncompress filename.Z' or `gunzip filename.z' and hit enter at your host system's command prompt. If it's a text file, you can read it online by typing `zcat file.txt.Z |more' at your host system's command line. There is a Macintosh program called "MacCompress" that you can use on your machine if you want to download the file (use archie to find where you can get it!). There's an MS-DOS equivalent, often found as `u16.ZIP', which means it is itself compressed in the ZIP format. `.zip' `.ZIP' An MS-DOS format. Use the PKZIP package (usually found as `PKZ201.exe' or something similar). `.gz' The GNU project's compression format. A variant of the PKZIP format. Use `gunzip filename.gz' to uncompress. `.zoo' `.ZOO' A Unix and MS-DOS format. Requires the use of a program called zoo. `.Hqx' `.hqx' A Macintosh format that needs BinHex for de-coding. `.shar' `.Shar' A Unix format. Use unshar. `.tar' Another Unix format, often used to glue several related files and/or complete directory trees into one big file. Use the `tar' command. Often, a "tarred" file will also be compressed with the `.Z' method, so you first have to use uncompress and then tar. `.TGZ' `.TAZ' Sometimes used for compressed tar archives `.tar.Z', that are stored on "3 letter suffix only systems" (aka MS-DOS). `.sit' `.Sit' A Macintosh format, requires StuffIt. `.ARC' A DOS format that requires the use of ARC or ARCE. `.LZH' Another DOS compression format; requires the use of LHARC. `.lz' `.lha' The Amiga variant of LHARC. It's the most common Amiga archiving method, and made with the program `lha' or `lz'. [..] -=- * -=- * THE WHOLE LIST OF FILES Check the version number! Get 2.3, it's the latest! Some servers may run "out of pace" with updates; so check out more than one of the SERVERS listed below. The default distribution (all papers sizes) is placed on "ftp.Germany.EU.net", in "pub/books/eff-guide/" |-README // FAQ file |-README.VMS // help for VMS folks |-extended-guide-|-eegtti-2.3.ps.gz // PostScript |-eegtti-2.3.dvi.gz // TeX DVI file |-eegtti-2.3-US.dvi.gz // TeX DVI US paper |-eegtti-2.3-US.ps.gz // TeX PS US paper |-eegtti-2.3.info.gz // GNU Info file |-eegtti-2.3.txt.gz // TEXT file |-eegtti-2.3.html.tar.gz // HTML (WWW) files |-eegtti-2.3.amiga.lha // AmigaGuide files |-eegtti-2.3.tar.gz // all Texinfo sources In the US, it's avail. from "ftp.EFF.ORG", in "/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/" (or whatever is the current path...) -=- * -=- * ANONYMOUS FTP AFRICA * South Africa ftp.sun.ac.za:/pub/misc/papers/eff-guide * ASIA * South Korea cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** (143.248.11.171) AUSTRALIA ftp.vifp.monash.edu.au:/pub/userdocs/eegtti/ BETELGEUSE hftp.sirius.cybernetics.com:/pub/slurb-this!/effed-guide/ EUROPE * GERMANY ftp.germany.eu.net:/pub/books/eff-guide/ bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/... * FINLAND ftp.funet.fi:/pub/networking/tutorials/EFF_Net_Guide/ ** NORTH AMERICA * USA ftp.eff.org:/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/ ftp.wustl.edu:/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** uceng.uc.edu:/pub/wuarchive/doc/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** ftp.hep.net:/networks/ ftp.hmc.edu:/pub/internet/guides ** * CANADA ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror3/EFF/EFF/papers/ ** * mirror of ftp.Germany.EU.net version 2.3 ** mirror of ftp.EFF.ORG version 2.3 -=- * -=- * E-MAIL SERVERS (FTPmail & Squirrel) In order to get the (unextended) ASCII version just send (any) e-mail to netguide@eff.org. 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Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLAND http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/~szymon/ * Kimmo Ketolainen Yo-kyla 84 A 10, FIN-20540 Turku -=- * -=- --- eegtti/$Id: VERSIONS,v 2.3 1994/08/14 13:24:44 joke Rel $ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Format * Version:Date * Author * * Computer/Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ASCII 1.0:20/08/93 Adam Gaffin any 1.1:02/09/93 1.2:??/09/93 1.3:26/10/93 1.4:22/12/93 2.0:21/01/94 2.1:03/02/94 2.2:23/02/94 2.3:13/09/94 * FILE(S): /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/netguide.eff (Unix - LF line termination) /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/netgd2_22.zip (DOS - CR/LF line term., ZIP'd) [also available on various BBSs and other systems as bigdummy.*, bdummy.*, bdguide.*, bdg.*, bdgtti.*, netguide.* effguide.* eegtti.*, egtti.* netg*.*, etc. etc.; may be .txt, .doc, .zip, etc.] GeoWorks 2.0 Adam Gaffin 286PC GeoWorks Write /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Other_versions/bigd-geo.zip Windows Help 2.0 Eric R. 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Under 3.x, it can be used with MultiView. The file "AmiGuide2Inet1_1.lha" on some AmiNet sites is outdated, since January '94. -=- * -=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ** HyperCard and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. AmigaGuide is a trademark of Commodore Computer Corp. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe System, Inc. Unix is a trademark of Bell Labs, now owned by AT&T. HTML is affiliated with the World-Wide Web project of CERN, Switzerland. Texinfo is affiliated with the GNU project of The Free Software Foundation. Joke is not a trademark of Jester Inside, Inc., which doesn't exist. -=- * -=- -- eegtti/$Id: CREDITS,v 2.3 1994/08/14 13:24:37 joke Rel $ -=- * -=- "Du willst laufen wie ein Kind im Wind, und dahin kommen wo wir anderen schon so lange sind---ins Labyrinth" -- Spliff -=- * -=- * THE PEOPLE? The following individuals, consciously (and unconsciously), willingly (and unwillingly) contributed to the Texinfo project as a whole; in the order af their respective appearance: * Shari Steele * Howard Rheingold * Bernd Raichle * Adam Gaffin * Brendan Kehoe * Bruce Sterling * Jonathan I. Kamens * Gene Spafford * Greg Chartrand * Brad Templeton * Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond * Ingo Dressler * David Sternlight * Otto Lang * Christopher K. Davis * Iain O'Cain * Lionel Cons * David J. Bianco * Achim Voermanek * Noel Hunter * R. Stewart Ellis * Mark Sanderson * Bo Frese Rasmussen * Chris Varner * Martin Schweikert * Timo Harmo * Rik Harris * James Grinter * Oscar Nierstrasz * Jeremy Payne * David Trueman * Michael P. Urban * Mark Woodward * Iain Lea * David E. Fox * Peter Smulders * Gert C Van Rooyen * Patrick Nielsen Hayden * Robin Evans * Tim Berners-Lee * Helen Trillian Rose Davis * Jon L. Spear * Alan Legatt * Paul Brown * Larry W. Virden * Ted Shapin * Roman Schwartz * TAKADA Toshihiro * Fred Schimmel * Antony Cooper * Lennat Tower, jr. * Jon Bell * John Campbell * Ed Moore * Axel Belinfante * Arthur Secret * Jason Schmit * Uri S. Naishtut * Chris Ruprecht * Dan Brown * Keith Bostic * Clemens Schrimpe * Reinhold Tokar <100014.3265@CompuServe.COM> * Jeff Dingbaum * Jim Meyering * Otmar Lendl * Warwick Kau-Choon Chai * Pieter Immelman * Joseph Taylor Potts * Guenter * Reiner Hoenig * Steve Cisler * James Rice * Stephen C. Trier * James E. Burns * Rodrigo Vanegas * Steve VanDevender * Reinier de Vos * Gerald Malitz * David Mason * Volker Kunert * David Beasley * Anthony Rajakumar * Aniekan Akpaffiong * A. Solomon Eaglstein * Jan Adlington * Elaine Jackson * John Sheckler * Larry W. Virden * Dave Rosselle * Cristine Hollinshead * Wolfhang Banzaf * Stoffel Erasmus * Stanton McCandlish * Robert E. Maas * Bryan D. Boyle * Paul F. Mende * Michael A. Patton * Joseph E. Sacco * Steinar Kjaernsrod * Luis Ochoa Giraldo * Thomas Gellekum * Moritz D. Klingholz * Benedikt Homann * Holger Hoffstaette * Maray Tamas * Forrest Cook * Shmuel Browns * Roland H. Pesch * Richard Stallman * Dawn Cooley * John O'Hare * George D. Greenwade * Tony Sprinzl * Sean Lally * Kathy Lewis * Roger Lighty * Erdal Taner * Eric Morgan * Steve Belczyk * Heiko Schlichting * Ping Huang * Rob Kabacoff * Andreas Gehmeyr * Jonathan Granrose * John Aspden * A.U. Weisshuhn * Markus Stumpf * Eric De Mund * Alfredo De Regil * Ed Simonds * Danny Yang * Pete Ashdown * Jason Holt * Florin Neumann * Szymon Sokol * Kimmo Ketolainen * Robert Schultz * Dan Stromberg * Kevin Savetz * Larry Landweber * Jaroslaw Rafa * Arthur Britto * Adam Atkinson * Thomas Neugebauer * Nicola Doering * Dirk Eddelbuettel * Scott D. Yelich * Chris Schmitt Thanks alot, folks! -=- * -=- * THE AGENTS? Additional thanks to the following people for local propaganda: * Ruediger Jegelka * Joerg Svensson * Jenna Wai-Mun Dea * Uri S. Naishtut * Susanne Spitzer <100141.1745@CompuServe.COM> * Jacqueline Ehninger-Cuervo -=- * -=- "Music-hall, not poetry, is a criticism of life." -- James Joyce -=- * -=- * THE ARTISTS? Ok, here's the list of a whole bunch of Musicians, that provided the right sound during production of the Texinfo version, in alphabetical order: * Aerosmith (Pump, Get a grip) * BAP (Pik Sibbe) * Bon Jovi (Slippery When Wet, Keep the Faith) * The Cross (Shove It, Blue Rock) * Dire Straits (On the Night: Live) * Genesis (A Trick of the Tail, ...and then there were three, Duke) * Fish (Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors, Sushi, Suits!) * Guns 'N Roses (Use your Illusion I+II, The Spaghetti Incident?) * Marillion (Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws) * Meat Loaf (Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Rock 'N Roll Hero) * Mike Oldfield (Crisis, Tubular Bells II, Amarok) * Pink Floyd (The Wall, The Divison Bell) * Prince (Sign O' the Times) * Queen (A Day at the Races, Innuendo, A Kind of Magic) * Saga (Beginner's Guide..., Security of Illusion, Steel Umbrellas) * Simple Minds (Real Life) * Spliff (Radio Show, 85555, Herzlichen Glueckwunsch, Alles Gute!) * Styx (Paradise Theatre, Edge of the Century) * Supertramp (Very Best of: White label) * U2 (Wide Awake in America, Joshua Tree, Rattle & Hum) -=- * -=- * THE WOMEN? Special thanks to my virtual and non-virtual sisters: Monika, Oggi, Bettina, Gabi, Christine, Kristina, Claudia, Christiane, Heidi, Marietta, Martina, Angela, Astrid, Kirsten, Ilke, Kerstin, Renate, Rosie, Jenna, Heike, Nicole, Cornelia, Susanne, Davika, Nora, Ute, Heike II, Jeanine, Jaqueline and some other *long legged complex systems,* who contributed passion to the *abstract hill* I compiled over the past years. -=- * -=- "If your life is just a highway, and your soul is just a car, objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are..." -- Jim Steinway for Meat Loaf -=- * -=- --- eegtti/$Id: COPYLITE,v 2.3 1994/08/14 13:24:36 joke Rel $ Following is a list of files that are individually copyrighted parts of this distribution; all others are Copyright (c) 1994 Electronic Frontier Foundation. See the accompanying LICENSE/policy.texi file for distribution policy. * COPYLITE: Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Heitkoetter. All rights reserved. * gday.texi: ``G'day, folks!'' Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Heitkoetter. All rights reserved. * welcome.texi: ``Welcome'' Copyright (c) 1994 by Mitchell Kapor. All rights reserved. * foreword.texi: ``Foreword'' Copyright (c) 1993 by Mitch Kapor. All rights reserved. * nyt.texi: ``Subject: A Superhighway through the Wasteland?'' Copyright (c) 1993 by New York Times Corporartions. All rights reserved. * preface.texi: ``Preface'' * adam.texi: ``Conclusion: The End?'' Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by Adam Gaffin. All rights reserved. * howard.texi: ``A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community'' Copyright (c) 1992 by Howartd Rheingold. All rights reserved. * bruce.texi: ``A Statement of Principle'' Copyright (c) 1992 by Bruce Sterling. All rights reserved. * peter.texi: Preserving and Promoting the ''Internet Culture'' Copyright (c) 1993 by Peter Deutsch. All rights reserved. * nren.texi: ``Subject: A Perspective on NREN'' Copyright (c) 1993 by Greg Chartrand. All rights reserved. * emily.texi: ``Dear Emily Postnews'' Copyright (c) 1991 by Brad Templeton. All rights reserved. * eff.texi: ``Information on the Electronic Frontier Foundation'' Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 by EFF. All rights reserved. * isocodes.texi: ``ISO 3166 Country Codes'' Copyright (c) 1993 by Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond. All rights reserved. * connect.texi: ``Internet Connectivity'' Copyright (c) 1994 by Lawrence H. Landweber. All rights reserved. * time.texi: ``Subject: TIME Article on Internet'' Copyright (c) 1993 by Philip Elmer-Dewitt. All rights reserved. -=- * -=- -- eegtti/$Id: POLICY,v 2.3 1994/09/11 21:00:56 joke Rel $ DISTRIBUTION POLICY TERMS AND CONDITIONS This guide is available free of charge from the EFF online archives at ftp.eff.org, gopher.eff.org, http://www.eff.org, EFF BBS (+1 202 638 6120), AOL keyword EFF, CIS EFFSIG forum, and elsewhere. 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Donations appreciated. 4) You may not charge a for-profit fee specifically for this guide, only for a collection containing the guide, with the exeception of a nominal copying charge (online usage fees exempted, as above). The Electronic Frontier Foundation 1001 G Street NW, Suite 950 E Washington DC 20001 USA +1 202 347 5400 (voice) +1 202 393 5509 (fax) +1 202 638 6120 (BBS) FidoNet: 1:109/1108 Internet: ask@eff.org Internet fax gate: remote-printer.EFF@9.0.5.5.3.9.3.2.0.2.1.tpc.int -=- * -=- --- eegtti/$Id: EFF.EFF,v 2.3 1994/09/12 23:06:16 joke Rel $ eff ver 1 intr. To say `fuck' or similar expletive; esp. in phr. to eff and blind, to swear continuously. 1943-. A. Weseker He started effing and blinding and threw their books on the floor (1959). 2 trans ind intr. euphemistic = FUCK verb 2,3,4,5. 1950-. K. Amis You young people eff off (1958); D. Sanderson You sure effed things up (1958). [Variant of ef, name of the letter F, euphemistically representing FUCK verb.] hence effing, noun, adjective, and adverb 1944-. PRIVATE EYE The relatives get effing tough (1969). Taken from: "The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang" by John Ayto and John Simpson, Oxford University Press, 1992. p63 -=- * -=-