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B Dial your local SprintNet access number (local call!): ATDT 123 4567

C After ”CONNECT 2400”, type D (”D” must be capital)

D After ”tern type

C DELPHI

F After Username: type

Username: YOURNAME Password: OPENSESAME

Type your own usernaet your Sprintnet access number, or if you are out of town, you can look up SprintNet numbers as follows

STEP 2 Your First E-mail Get PDIAL, NIXPUB, INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE, Info on PSI Info on LISTSERV and signing up for E-mail

STEP 3 Your First Anonyo the internet

STEP 4 Your First Telnet

Getting Public Access UNIX and reading Usenet news

STEP 5 First E- Infors with the Internet The information you have retrieved, especially the Internet Guides, will give you other ideas We will go over some of the retrieval methods in Part III of this course For now, you should experi point The experience you gain will be useful e come to the more systematic study of Internet research raain experience finding and transfering infor binary files containing pictures or free software froe FTP archives like

wustledu

sumex-aimstanfordedu (Macintosh software)

simtel-20mil (IBM and compatible software)

In fact, soet is software for co files (see next Chapter), processing graphics (”iames

First, what is a binary file? A binary file is one that you can't read

Unlike text, which consists of groups of eight bit code letters representing ”a”, ”b”, and so on, binary files have bits that are ra them out or with a word processor--unless the word processor understands the for the most popular ones like Word Perfect and Microsoft Word--are increasingly able to read a large variety of binary files

Frequently encountered binary files include:

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