Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [GUTNBERG-L] Gutenberg August 1993 Releases Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 05:30:11 GMT Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gutnberg Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 11:38:56 CDT From: "Michael S. Hart" Sender: Project Gutenberg Email List Subject: Project Gutenberg Message-ID: Lines: 76 Today's [Sept. 5] Associated Press carries a story about Project Gutenberg which also appears locally in the Chicago Sunday Sun-Times and WMAQ radio, your local news media will have it via their AP connection for you even if they might not use it on this specfic day or week [or at all]. [SunT p20] A related request for Project Gutenberg Volunteers follows: [Your particular server may not carry it] Michael S. Hart Meanwhile: The four Project Gutenberg Etexts for August 1993: Mon Year Title (filename.ext) ## Aug 1993 Terminal Compromise/NetNovel[termc10x.xxx] 79 Aug 1993 Tarzan of the Apes/Burroughs[tarzn10x.xxx] 78 Aug 1993 House of 7 Gables/Hawthorne [7gabl10x.xxx] 77 Aug 1993 Huck Finn [Wiretap/Twain] [hfinn10x.xxx] 76 Sep 1993 Preliminary Announcment of a book to help your online activities. . .not yet posted. The easiest way to get these files is to follow these instructions: [exactly. . .Mac users, you will do better to TYPE these commands & NOT to point and click. . .my experience is that these commands are often CASE sensitive and that the Mac FTP emulators have windows to enter your commands directly. . .if you have trouble with a point & shoot operation, try entering the commands as written here] ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu login: anonymous password: yourname@your.machine cd etext cd etext93 get filename (be sure to set bin, if you get the .zip files) get more files quit If you don't have ftp access you can get etexts via email: 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 For more details see the Project Gutenberg Newsletters. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu or listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet sub gutnberg your name No subject is required. ===================================================== | 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 consideration, Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532 No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC hart @uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu