NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) GUIDE FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS The National Institutes of Health distributes the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts weekly to the University of Pittsburgh Office of Research. The Office of Research has given the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts to Computing and Information Services (CIS) to be made available to the PREPnet community. The National Institutes of Health NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts announces scientific initiatives and administrative information to individuals and organizations regarding extramural programs administered by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH Guide contains summaries of recently published requests for proposals (RFPs) and the full text requests for applications (RFAs). For more information about any funding announcement, contact the individual(s) identified in the file. Before submitting an application for any RFP or RFA, please get in touch with the contact person. HOW TO TRANSFER FILES The following commands are required to transfer the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts to your personal directory: $ ftp pitt.edu Name (pitt.edu:wlf): anonymous anonymous Password (pitt.edu:anonymous): 331 anonymous user ok. Send real ident as password. ftp> dir ftp> cd nihguide ftp> dir ftp> get 10-27intro-nih.gui ftp> get 10-27nihtable.gui ftp> get 10-27nih1.gui . . . . ftp> get 10-27nih8.gui ftp> get 10-27rfa.gui ftp> quit $ The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts has been successfully transferred to your personal directory. If there are any questions concerning the transfer of these files, please feel free to send electronic mail to IN%"IAJ@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU".