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>Available 24 hours.

wuarchive.wustl.edu. Look in the pub/aminet directory.

Available 24 hours.

ATARI

atari.archive.umich.edu Find almost all the Atari files you’ll ever

need, in the atari directory.

7 p.m. – 7 a.m.

BOOKS

rtfm.mit.edu The pub/usenet/rec.arts.books directories has

reading lists for various authors as well as lists of recommended

bookstores in different cities. Unfortunately, this site uses incredibly

long file names — so long they may scroll off the end of your screen if

you are using an MS-DOS or certain other computers. Even if you want

just one of the files, it probably makes more sense to use mget than get.

This way, you will be asked on each file whether you want to get it;

otherwise you may wind up frustrated because the system will keep telling

you the file you want doesn’t exist (since you may miss the end of its

name due to the scrolling problem).

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu Project Gutenberg is an effort to translate

paper texts into electronic form. Already available are more than 100

titles, from works by Lewis Carrol to Mark Twain; from “A Tale of Two

Cities” to “Son of Tarzan.” Look in the /etext/etext92 and

/etext/etext93 directories.

6 p.m. – 9 a.m.

COMPUTER ETHICS

ftp.eff.org The home of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Use cd

to get to the pub directory and then look in the EFF, SJG and CPSR

directories for documents on the EFF itself and various issues related to

the Net, ethics and the law.

Available 24 hours.

CONSUMER

rtfm.mit.edu The pub/usenet/misc.consumers directory has

documents related to credit. The pub/usenet/rec.travel.air directory

will tell you how to deal with airline reservation clerks, find the best

prices on seats, etc. See under Books for a caveat in using this ftp

site.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

COOKING

wuarchive.wustl.edu Look for recipes and recipe directories in the

usenet/rec.food.cooking/recipes directory.

gatekeeper.dec.com Recipes are in the pub/recipes directory.

ECONOMICS

neeedc.umesbs.maine.edu The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston uses

this site (yes, there are three ‘e’s in “neeedc”) to house all sorts of

data on the New England economy. Many files contain 20 years or more of

information, usually in forms that are easily adaptable to spreadsheet or

database files. Look in the frbb directory.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

town.hall.org. Look in the edgar directory for the beginnings of a

system to distribute annual reports and other data publicly held

companies are required to file with the Securities and Exchange

Commission. The other/fed directory holds various statistical files from

the Federal Reserve Board.

FTP

iraun1.ira.uka.de Run by the computer-science department of the

University of Karlsruhe in Germany, this site offers lists of anonymous-

FTP sites both internationally (in the anon.ftp.sites directory) and in

Germany (in anon.ftp.sites.DE).

12 p.m. to 2 a.m.

ftp.netcom.com The pub/profiles directory has lists of ftp sites.

GOVERNMENT

ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu The SENATE directory contains bibliographic

records of U.S. Senate hearings and documents for the past several

Congresses. Get the file README.DOS9111, which will explain the cryptic

file names.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

nptn.org The General Accounting Office is the investigative wing of

Congress. The pub/e.texts/gao.reports directory represents an experiment

by the agency to use ftp to distribute its reports.

Available 24 hours.

info.umd.edu The info/Government/US/Whitehouse directory has copies

of press releases and other documents from the Clinton administration.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

leginfo.public.ca.gov This is a repository of legislative

calendars, bills and other information related to state government in

California.

Available 24 hours.

whitehouse.gov Look for copies of presidential position papers,

transcripts of press conferences and related information here.

Available 24 hours.

See also under law.

HISTORY

nptn.org This site has a large, growing collecting of text files.

In the pub/e.texts/freedom.shrine directory, you’ll find copies of

important historical documents, from the Magna Carta to the Declaration

of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Available 24 hours.

ra.msstate.edu Mississippi State maintains an eclectic database of

historical documents, detailing everything from Attilla’s battle strategy

to songs of soldiers in Vietnam, in the docs/history directory.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

seq1.loc.gov The Library of Congress has acquired numerous

documents from the former Soviet government and has translated many of

them into English. In the pub/soviet.archive/text.english directory,

you’ll find everything from telegrams from Lenin ordering the death of

peasants to Khrushchev’s response to Kennedy during the Cuban missile

crisis. The README file in the pub/soviet.archive directory provides an

index to the documents.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

HONG KONG

nok.lcs.mit.edu GIF pictures of Hong Kong pop stars, buildings

and vistas are available in the pub/hongkong/HKPA directory.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

INTERNET

ftp.eff.org The pub/Net_underscore_info directory has a number of sub-

directories containing various Internet resources guides and information

files, including the latest online version of the Big Dummy’s Guide.

Available 24 hours.

nic.ddn.mil The internet-drafts directory contains information about

Internet, while the scc directory holds network security bulletins.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

LAW

info.umd.edu U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1989 to the present

are stored in the info/Government/US/SupremeCt directory. Each term has

a separate directory (for example, term1992). Get the README and Index

files to help decipher the case numbers.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

ftp.uu.net Supreme Court decisions are in the court-opinions

directory. You’ll want to get the index file, which tells you which file

numbers go with which file names. The decisions come in WordPerfect and

Atex format only.

Available 24 hours a day.

LIBRARIES

ftp.unt.edu The library directory contains numerous lists of

libraries with computerized card catalogs accessible through the Net.

LITERATURE

nptn.org In the pub/e.texts/gutenberg/etext91 and etext92

directories, you can get copies of Aesop’s Fables, works by Lewis Carroll

and other works of literature, as well as the Book of Mormon.

Available 24 hours.

world.std.com The obi directory has everything from online fables

to accounts of Hiroshima survivors.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

MACINTOSH

sumex-aim.stanford.edu This is the premier site for Macintosh

software. After you log in, switch to the info-mac directory, which will

bring up a long series of sub-directories of virtually every free and

shareware Mac program you could ever want.

9 p.m. – 9 a.m.

ftp.uu.net You’ll find lots of Macintosh programs in the

systems/mac/simtel20 directory.

Available 24 hours a day.

MOVIE REVIEWS

lcs.mit.edu Look in the movie-reviews directory.

6 p.m. – 6 a.m.

MS-DOS

wuarchive.wustl.edu This carries one of the world’s largest

collections of MS-DOS software. The files are actually copied, or

“mirrored” from a computer at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range

(which uses ftp software that is totally incomprehensible). It also

carries large collections of Macintosh, Windows, Atari, Amiga, Unix, OS9,

CP/M and Apple II software. Look in the mirrors and systems directories.

The gif directory contains a large number of GIF graphics images.

Accessible 24 hours.

ftp.uu.net Look for MS-DOS programs and files in the

systems/msdos/simtel20 directory.

Available 24 hours a day.

MUSIC

cs.uwp.edu The pub/music directory has everything from lyrics of

contemporary songs to recommended CDs of baroque music. It’s a little

different – and easier to navigate – than other ftp sites. File and

directory names are on the left, while on the right, you’ll find a brief

description of the file or directory, like this:

SITES 1528 Other music-related FTP archive sites

classical/ – (dir) Classical Buying Guide

database/ – (dir) Music Database program

discog/ = (dir) Discographies

faqs/ = (dir) Music Frequently Asked questions files

folk/ – (dir) Folk Music Files and pointers

guitar/ = (dir) Guitar TAB files from ftp.nevada.edu

info/ = (dir) rec.music.info archives

interviews/ – (dir) Interviews with musicians/groups

lists/ = (dir) Mailing lists archives

lyrics/ = (dir) Lyrics Archives

misc/ – (dir) Misc files that don’t fit anywhere else

pictures/ = (dir) GIFS, JPEGs, PBMs and more.

press/ – (dir) Press Releases and misc articles

programs/ – (dir) Misc music-related programs for various machines

releases/ = (dir) Upcoming USA release listings