Request: resource-guide
Topic:   resource-guide-help
Document Updated:  19 June 1991
Subject: "Help" for the "Internet Resource Guide" in the CSNET Info Server


  "HELP" FOR THE "INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE" IN THE CSNET INFO SERVER

NOTE: This is a very abbreviated set of entries.  More are available
and will be entered in the Info-Server in the near future.

The Internet Resource Guide is now available through the CSNET INFO
SERVER.  Here is a condensed list of the documents; the entire list of
sections is in the document "SECTIONS".

       Request                    Comment

REQUEST: RESOURCE-GUIDE       Internet Resource Guide Document Area
TOPIC:   RESOURCE-GUIDE-HELP  This Document, with List of Chapters
TOPIC:   SECTIONS             List of Individual Sections
TOPIC:   CHAPTER-1.TXT        Computational Resources Chapter - Plain Text
TOPIC:   CHAPTER-1.PS         Computational Resources Chapter - PostScript

The Info-Server is an automatic program that delivers information by
electronic mail. To order a file from the Info-Server, send a message
to Info-Server@nnsc.nsf.net.  You do not need a subject field.  The
text of your message must be in the following format:

        Request: RESOURCE-GUIDE
          Topic: RESOURCE-GUIDE-HELP
          Topic: SECTION1-2.TXT

This request asks for two documents, Resource-Guide-Help and
section1-2.txt from the collection "RESOURCE-GUIDE".  The body of your
message must contain a "REQUEST:" line, and one or more "TOPIC:" lines
to specify documents.  The line "REQUEST: END" is optional; it tells
the Info-Server to ignore the rest of the message.  Requests are
case-insensitive.

Each Chapter consists of independent Sections numbered section1-1.ps
or sections1-1.txt, etc.  The Sections are each sent in a separate
message, and no section in the collection is longer that 6K bytes.
For the plain text sections, the header lines in each message are
separated from the text by a formfeed (control-L), so that you can
print the message just as it arrives, without editing it.  It is not
possible to do anything quite so neat for the PostScript files because
each PostScript file must start with a special sequence of characters,
%!PS-Adobe-1.0, at the very beginning of the file.  The header lines
are therefore separated from the text by a "--- cut here ---" line.


YOU PROBABLY WON't NEED THIS, BUT ...
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH LARGE MESSAGES ...

The CSNET Info-Server is now set to split transmit documents with a
maximum size of 45000 bytes (45K bytes).  The reason is that some
important mail gateways reject messages longer than an arbitrary
limit, and others have difficulty with long messages from time to
time.

You may specify a limit, in lines or bytes, to the maximum size of
document that you wish to have sent in a single message.  For example:

     LINE-LIMIT: 1000         or          BYTE-LIMIT: 25K

The Info-Server will break the documents at exactly the specified
number of lines, or at the line preceeding the specified number of
bytes.  The minimum limit is 250 lines or 19000 bytes.  You may use
the form "25000" or "25K" in either limit, but NOT "25,000".  The
limit affects only lines up to the next REQUEST: line.

You should set your limit at least 5K lower than the limit set by your
gateway, to allow for added header lines.


FOR MORE INFORMATION ...

For more general information on the INFO SERVER send the following
message to Info-Server@nnsc.nsf.net:

        Request: INFO
          Topic: HELP