Liberal use of the ? key and help at the ftp> prompt will provide information on other options.
WAIS WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Server. It allowed sophisticated search and retrieval, but the WWW has made it wither and die. Gopher Gopher provided a user friendly front end to wais, ftp, and other information sources, but again has been largely superceded by the World Wide Web. WWW/Mosaic The World-Wide Web (WWW) has become the latest hot network item. It’s now so prevalnet in the public psyche that it’s probably not worth us trying to explain what it is, because by the time you read this, it’ll probably be out of date. Please help me find the e-mail address for Dr. … If you can not get this information by calling the person in question, there are several other resources that can be of help. As of May 1993, BIOSCI at net.bio.net began running a BIOSCI user address directory which can be accessed through gopher to net.bio.net or via WAIS or waismail. The WAIS source is called biologists-addresses.src and is updated daily.
