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From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
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Subject: AAS meeting abstracts via WAIS
The electronically submitted abstracts for the 182nd (Summer '93)
American Astronomical Society meeting in Berkeley, CA are now available
using WAIS. The WAIS source file (AAS_meeting.src) can be obtained via
anonymous FTP from hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov, in the directory wais-sources.
That directory also contains a number of other WAIS source files of
interest to the astronomical community.
The AAS meeting abstracts database, the AAS Job Register database and
article abstractions from 8 scientific journals (obtained from the NASA
CASI program) have all been made available by the STELAR Project at
Goddard Space Flight Center. For more information on STELAR and WAIS,
send electronic mail to stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov.
GENERAL INFORMATION
To get access to WAIS you must first obtain the WAIS client software and
get it running on your local machine. The Clearinghouse for Network
Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) has made their first
distribution version, called freeWAIS-0.1, available by anonymous FTP
from ftp.cnidr.org in the directory /pub/NIDR.tools. It includes
clients for Unix (character and X windows based), NeXT, MS-DOS (DOS and
Windows) and Macintosh. Clients for UNIX and the Apple Macintosh
(called WAIS-station) are also available by anonymous FTP at think.com.
The VMS, MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows clients are available by anonymous
FTP from sunsite.unc.edu.
The STELAR project currently offers several text databases to the
astronomical community. The corresponding source files are available by
anonymous FTP from hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov, in the directory wais-sources.
The source file for the STELAR journal abstracts is called
"abstracts.src". The AAS Job Register source file is in "AAS_jobs.src",
and the AAS electronic meeting abstracts source file is in
"AAS_meeting.src". It is also possible to obtain these source files by
automatic mail request. Send an E-mail message to
LISTSERV@HYPATIA.GSFC.NASA.GOV. In the body of the mail message put the
commands:
get stelar abstracts.src
get stelar AAS_jobs.src
get stelar AAS_meeting.src
The source files (not the contents of the databases) will be returned to
you by electronic mail. Save these files (without any accompanying
message headers) in plain ASCII files in your "wais-sources" directory
where they will be accessible to your WAIS client software.
For additional information or assistance about the astronomical WAIS
server, please feel free to contact stelar-info@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov.
_______________________________________________________________________
-- Archie Warnock Internet: warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov
-- Hughes STX "Unix --- JCL For The 90s"
-- NASA/GSFC Project STELAR: WAIS to do science
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