*** File: suggest.gut This reply up to date as of Sept 15, 1992 This message contains information for BOTH email and FTP users. ******* REPLY ******* In response to your request for more information about Project Gutenberg: I would suggest the following: One. . .please send a small donation to: Project Gutenberg Illinois Benedictine College 5700 College Road Lisle, IL 60532-0900 This is also the address to subscribe to the paper newsletter. Please realize this is NOT for mail to me personally, as paper mail to me at that address takes a long time to get to me, and I prefer email a very great deal. . .so much so, that paper mail gets done every few months! ********NOTE. . .different machines are and are not case sensitive******* mrcnext is a unix machine and IS case sensitive, type commands exactly!!! [if these suggestions do not work well for you, please ask again] [Try Bulletin Board System, The Bitter Butter Better BBS, (503)-620-0307] [if you are not an internet site, you will either have to find one to use or find an FTP emulator program to use at your site or I will will have a packet of information sent to you directly as email. (I leave this choice for last because all email is backed up to my disk, so sending out copies to many people creates many backups, but don't hesitate to ask and remind us that you need email sent rather than instructions for FTP)] Here are a couple suggestions for non-FTP users, followed by FTP. ------ The Almanac information server, located at the Extension Service at Oregon State University, allows text retreival both through ftp and e-mail. To retrieve a file via ftp: ftp oes.orst.edu (128.193.124.2) Log in as `anonymous' and your login name as a password. cd /pub/almanac/etext or cd/pub/almanac/guten (dir/ls to check) ls (to get a list of files) bin (to switch to binary mode) get filename (where `filename' was one of the files listed) bye (when done) To retrieve a file via e-mail, first send the following line by itself to almanac@oes.orst.edu send gutenberg catalog This will instruct you how to send further requests, and will list the available files. For example, to retrieve _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_, send to almanac@oes.orst.edu send gutenberg alice  Bitnet users can also try BITFTP. It is a server that will take an E-mail message from a BITNET site, and send corresponding commands to an FTP server, then send that file as a mail file to the BITNET user. If anyone wants to try it, send just the word HELP in the body of the message to BITFTP@PUCC. We would also suggest you subscribe to the Project Gutenberg newletter by sending the following message from the address you wish to receive it at: sub gutnberg your name send this to listserv@uiucvmd (bitnet) or to listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu (This message needs no subject, "sub gutnberg your name" is the message). (Please save the message you receive in response to subscribing, and. . . please unsub and resub if your address or name changes. . .please! do not have the newsletter forwarded from the address you give, as errors should come from the address you are actually at. To FTP directly to the Project Gutenberg archives: ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or 128.174.201.12 login: anonymous password: name@node cd etext92 or cd etext/etext92 (for current [1992] etexts) cd etext/etext91 (for 1991 etexts) For information about Project Gutenberg: cd etext/articles [Gutenberg articles and newsletters] dir [to see files] get or mget [to get files. . .set bin for zip files] [if you leave set for bin and do ascii files you get c/r l/f] [Don't forget to set to bin if you then retransfer to home] GET INDEX or INDEX.GUT for a list of books and GET NEW.GUT for general information and MGET GUT* for newsletters. Please tell us what books you want and how you like these. ===================================================== | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990,1991 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois. Mail will be considered for release in our newsletter and notes unless otherwise requested. Email addresses: BITNET> HART@UIUCVMD INTERNET> HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Also as the Usenet group bit.listserv.gutnberg CompuServe: >INTERNET:hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Attmail: internet!vmd.cso.uiuc.edu!HART ****End of file suggest.gut****