Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:44:37 EST From: "Rob Slade, the doting grandpa of Ryan Hoff" Subject: "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference" by Seiter BKINMCDQ.RVW 950526 "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference", Charles Seiter, 1994, 1- 56884-967-2, U$9.99/C$12.99/UK#8.99 %A Charles Seiter mkry53a@prodigy.com chseiter@aol.com 71354,341 %C 155 Bovet Road, Suite 310, San Mateo, CA 94402 %D 1994 %G 1-56884-967-2 %I IDG Books %O U$9.99/C$12.99/UK#8.99 415-312-0650 fax: 415-286-2740 kaday@aol.com %P 184 %S ... for Dummies %T "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference" Yes, I suppose that this would be a quick reference to some things--but not necessarily a frequent reference. On the other hand, it would be a good "quick start". Seiter provides solid, basic introductory information for using the normal Internet applications: email, Usenet news, ftp and archie, Gopher and World Wide Web. There are some exceptions. Usenet news is not normally accessible via email (I think he confused news with mailing lists) and the value range for an octet (byte) is zero to 255. The material, however, contains a lot of material on different interfaces for the various tools. The standard UNIX command-line examples are presented and then compared with different Mac client software. This would be quite helpful for those just getting online, but less useful after even a few months of experience. One chapter also reviews Internet access via the major commercial online systems. The appendices contain listings of newsgroups, ftp archives and WWW sites that would make for interesting browsing. The organization of the content is not very helpful in terms of following or finding a specific topic. Two (almost identical) sections in chapter four promise details on how to use ftp by email, but the specifics are buried in a section on CompuServe in chapter seven. (And then, the information given is wrong.) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKINMCDQ.RVW 950526 ====================== ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 RSlade@cyberstore.ca "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." -G B Shaw Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94311-0/3-540-94311-0 From roberts@mukluk.hq.decus.ca Wed Aug 23 06:03 EET 1995 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 22:44:37 EST From: "Rob Slade, the doting grandpa of Ryan Hoff" X-Comment: To: header was truncated; missing 2 entries. To: kaisaki@csmc.edu, cccf@email.teaser.com, orvis@llnl.gov, jhammock@clark.net, vcrouch@wic.ca, gen@stubbs.ucop.edu, pitzel@cs.sfu.ca, eccles@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca, myles@io.org, kms@northcoast.net, jb@paris7.jussieu.fr, vclib@uts.cc.utexas.edu, kehoe@fortuity.com, lloyd_uliana@mindlink.net, temetz@carleton.edu, susan@cyberstore.ca, mae@freenet.victoria.bc.ca, pd@nwavbbs.demon.co.uk, jon@stekt.oulu.fi, swanson@csmes.ncsl.nist.gov, wells@csmes.ncsl.nist.gov, pfratus@compubooks.com, reviews@reiters.com, rjames@fox.nstn.ns.ca, roswell@fox.nstn.ca, ecbs@sas.ab.ca, sanj@wordsworth.com, afinet@books.com, jkcohen@uci.edu, keithx@technical.powells.portland.or.us, michel.bauwens@dm.rs.ch, pandres@cln.etc.bc.ca, root@mag.mechnet.com, clovf@ruby.ils.unc.edu, shrike@shell.portal.com, rob.slade@f733.n153.z1.fidonet.org, steele@wolfe.net, cnews@libtech.com, johnl@mukluk.hq.decus.ca, mulholland@psc.org, robertbl@mukluk.hq.decus.ca, swart@shr.dec.com, elizabethm@mukluk.hq.decus.ca Cc: brock@ucsub.colorado.edu, book-reviews@news.colorado.edu, misc-books-technical@cs.utexas.edu, alt-books-technical@cs.utexas.edu, biz-books-technical@cs.utexas.edu, comp-sys-mac-misc@cs.utexas.edu, nettrain@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu, roberts@mukluk.hq.decus.ca X-Vmsmail-To: @REVIEW X-Vmsmail-Cc: @BOKLSTRV,MX%"comp-sys-mac-misc@cs.utexas.edu",MX%"nettrain@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu",MX%"telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu",ROBERTS Subject: "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference" by Seiter Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2198 BKINMCDQ.RVW 950526 "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference", Charles Seiter, 1994, 1- 56884-967-2, U$9.99/C$12.99/UK#8.99 %A Charles Seiter mkry53a@prodigy.com chseiter@aol.com 71354,341 %C 155 Bovet Road, Suite 310, San Mateo, CA 94402 %D 1994 %G 1-56884-967-2 %I IDG Books %O U$9.99/C$12.99/UK#8.99 415-312-0650 fax: 415-286-2740 kaday@aol.com %P 184 %S ... for Dummies %T "The Internet for Macs for Dummies Quick Reference" Yes, I suppose that this would be a quick reference to some things--but not necessarily a frequent reference. On the other hand, it would be a good "quick start". Seiter provides solid, basic introductory information for using the normal Internet applications: email, Usenet news, ftp and archie, Gopher and World Wide Web. There are some exceptions. Usenet news is not normally accessible via email (I think he confused news with mailing lists) and the value range for an octet (byte) is zero to 255. The material, however, contains a lot of material on different interfaces for the various tools. The standard UNIX command-line examples are presented and then compared with different Mac client software. This would be quite helpful for those just getting online, but less useful after even a few months of experience. One chapter also reviews Internet access via the major commercial online systems. The appendices contain listings of newsgroups, ftp archives and WWW sites that would make for interesting browsing. The organization of the content is not very helpful in terms of following or finding a specific topic. Two (almost identical) sections in chapter four promise details on how to use ftp by email, but the specifics are buried in a section on CompuServe in chapter seven. (And then, the information given is wrong.) copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKINMCDQ.RVW 950526 ====================== ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 RSlade@cyberstore.ca "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." -G B Shaw Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" 0-387-94311-0/3-540-94311-0