File spoon-archives/french-feminism.archive/french-feminism_1997/french-feminism.9711, message 34


Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:48:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>
Subject: Accessing the archives 



In response to Estela's request, I'm reposting the info I posted to the 
list last February regarding accessing the french-fem archives. Since 
there are several ways to do this, I've broken up the instructions into 
two messages.

Hope this helps.

Judith Poxon
co-moderator, french-feminism
poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu

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Hi, everyone!

I've recently received a couple of private requests for info on accessing 
the archives, so I thought I'd post some pointers to the whole list, 
since others of you may be wondering, too. (You might want to save this 
for future reference, if you're like me and need to be walked through a 
new procedure several times before you really get the hang of it!)

There are several ways to get materials from the archives. I think the 
easiest way to retrieve files is via gopher, if you have access to it. 
What you need to do is get to your main system prompt, whatever you're 
using, and type

     gopher jefferson.village.virginia.edu

and then you'll follow a series of menus to get to our archives. At the 
main menu, select item #4 (publications of the Institute). You'll get a 
second menu, from which you select item #3 (discussion lists), which 
takes you to a third menu, from which you select item #21 (spoons). The 
french-feminism archive is at item #26 on the spoons menu; the menu for 
our archives lists, I think, 5 entries, of which the first is called 
Lubbock.abstracts (which is the item you want to select if you're looking 
for one of the 7 or 8 abstracts that presenters from the recent 
conference made available). Other entries are labelled, for example, 
"recent" or "french-feminism_1995". From here you can look around to your 
heart's content! And if and when you find files that you want to 
retrieve, just read through to the end of the file, where you'll find a 
menu bar running across the bottom of the message that gives you several 
options, one of which is <m>mail. Select this by typing

     m <enter>

and you'll be asked to enter your email address. Once you do, gopher will 
mail the file you've selected to you as if it were a regular email 
message. 

A second way to retrieve stuff from the archives is by using the "get" 
command in an email message to 

     majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu

This is really easy once you know what file you want, but it doesn't 
allow you to browse the files first. You can, however, first get an index 
of available files by sending a message to majordomo that says

     index french-feminism

Then you can read through the index and see if any of the files sounds 
like what you're looking for. Once you've decided which file(s) you want, 
send a message to majordomo that says

     get french-feminism <filename>

where <filename> is the name of the file you've selected. You can "get" 
several files in the same email message, but put each request on a 
separate line.

OK, you can also access the archives via FTP, but I'm going to put the 
instructions for that in a separate post, since this one is running a bit 
long.

Hope this all helps!

Judith Poxon
co-moderator, french-feminism
poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu





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