Universal Resource Locators

By Scott T Boyd, Editor

Many of you have asked for pointers to interesting places. We’ve whipped up a quick hodge-podge of points of interest. It’s certainly incomplete. If there’s something you’d like to see here, please drop us a note at editorial@xplain.com.

In case you’re not familiar with Universal Resource Locator (URL) format, it’s essentially

<servicekind>://<servername>/<pathname>.  

That’s a bit of an oversimplification (e.g. the path can be far more interesting), but it should be enough to you started.

Products mentioned in this issue

Object Master Universal (800) 384-0010 or (408) 252-4444

QC onyxtech@aol.com, demo on AOL

Interesting Developer Places

Dylan ftp://cambridge.apple.com/pub/dylan

see also http://legend.gwydion.cs.cmu.edu:8001/dylan

Lisp http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/miller/alu.html

Smalltalk http://www.qks.com

MacTech ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/xplain

OpenDoc ftp://cil.org

alt.sources.mac ftp://ftpbio.bgsu.edu/alt.sources.mac

Best of the Net http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html

MacGL ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/loceff

Applescript ftp://gaea.kgs.ukans.edu/applescript

Alpha ftp://cs.rice.edu:public/Alpha

BBEdit ftp://ftp.netcom.com:/pub/bbsw

MacNosy ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/macnosy

Symantec ftp://devtools.symantec.com/Macintosh/Updates/DevTools

TCL stuff ftp://ics.uci.edu/mac

People & Places

Apple ftp://ftp.apple.com/

Apple developer http://www.support.apple.com

Bill Modesitt ftp://ftp.maui.com/pub/mauisw

Consensus http://www.consensus.com:8300

info-mac archives ftp://amug.org/info-mac

ftp://mac.archive.umich.edu/mac

Paul Robichaux http://www.iquest.com/~fairgate

Texas A&M http://gopher.tamu.edu/

Peter Lewis tcp/ip apps ftp://amug.org/pub/peterlewis

Getting on the net

For those of you with only unix shell account network access, you may want to check out TIA, The Internet Adapter. The Internet Adaptor is a program for unix systems that lets you emulate a SLIP line in software, and that lets you run software like Mosaic and NewsWatcher. Telnet to tia.marketplace.com or point your www browser at marketplace.com for more info.