Tools to Ease Your Internet Adventures: Part I.

Descy, Don E.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Tools to Ease Your Internet Adventures: Part I.

Descy, Don E.

TechTrends, v38 n6 p19-20 Nov-Dec 1993

This first of a two-part series highlights three tools that improve accessibility to Internet resources: (1) Alex, a database that accesses files in FTP (file transfer protocol) sites; (2) Archie, software that searches for file names with a user's search term; and (3) Gopher, a menu-driven program to access Internet sites. (LRW)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Electronic Mail, File Transfer Protocol, Internet, Menu Driven Software, Subject Index Terms, Users (Information)

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