From: mc@shore.net (Michael Crestohl)
Subject: REVIEW: THE INTERNET ROADMAP, 2nd Ed, by Bennett Falk, SYBEX 1994
Date: 14 Dec 1994 17:32:18 -0500

Review: THE INTERNET ROADMAP, 2nd Ed. by Bennett Falk, SYBEX 1994
ISBN: 0-7821-1586-1   paperbound  325 pages, $14.99

This popular Internet "how-to" book is now in its second edition
and at $15.00 is an excellent guide for the Internet beginner.
This book has three parts and five appendices.  Part One covers
the physical aspects of the Internet - what it is, and how to get
connected to it.  We are also introduced to FINGER, a useful
Internet utility.

Part Two gets into the first generation applications: E-mail, FTP
and TELNET. Falk tells you how to download, install and use Eudora, 
a popular mail program, available in both Windows and MacIntosh 
formats.  Readers are given actual examples of things to do using 
these tools - like connecting to the Food & Drug Administration's
bulletin board and logging onto the Subway Navigator Database
located in Paris.  Readers are also introduced to Scott Yanoff's
Internet Services list and are taught how to retrieve it using
FTP. Falk also shows us how to perform Archie searches using
TELNET and e-mail. All in all, Falk does an excellent job explaining 
these concepts in clear,easy-to-understand language,

Part Three covers the Internet Community's applications which
include Gopher, the World-Wide Web and WWW browsers such as CELLO
and MOSAIC, USENET news, the TIN and other newsreaders.  

The five appendices include a list of US and Canadian Internet
service providers, Internet documentation called RFCs (Request
for Comments), logging in, some basic survival UNIX and
information on WAIS (Wide-Area Information Servers.

I found the Second Edition of The Internet Roadmap to be an
excellent first book of the Internet.  Its well illustrated and
gives the reader plenty of hands-on experience doing fun things
while they learn.  At $14.99 it has to be one of the least
expensive Internet books on the shelves - the average price seems
to be $25.00 - and gives the reader the basic tools to cruise the
Internet with the best of them.

(C) 1994
Michael Crestohl
mc@shore.net