THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Below are instructions for retrieving information about National Information Infrastructure (NII FAQs). These instructions are provided for your information in the hope that those interested in this subject will find them helpful.
This FAQ was created by the ACE team at ESUSDA. To learn more about ACE, send info@ace.esusda.gov. -- JPG
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RETRIEVING THE
NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
DOCUMENTS
The most up-to-date version of this document can be obtained by sending mail to:
nii@ace.esusda.gov.
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WHAT IS AVAILABLE -- AND HOW?
This document includes instructions for retrieving Vice-President Gore's Jan. 11, 1994 speech at Royce Hall, UCLA on Telecommunications Policy Reform.
Information on the National Information Infrastructure is available both electronically, in print and in CD-ROM. Please note that some information varies at each site and can include daily updates from the White House, press releases and briefings, background information, and reports.
As additional documents and retrieval sources become available, we
will update this factsheet.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Retrieving an electronic version -- at no charge
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RETRIEVING AN ELECTRONIC VERSION -- NO CHARGE
A - VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Depending on the information you are looking for, using the commands below, you will receive the information you request.
TO RETRIEVE: TYPE:
National Info. Infrastructure send nii catalog Technology for Economic
Growth Catalog send nii-tech catalog
Telecommunications Policy Reform
Initiative (Gore Speech 1/11/94) send npr-telcom catalog
B - VIA GOPHER AND/OR TELNET
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher ace.esusda.gov
>>From the Main Menu, choose:
5. Americans Communicating Electronically/...
National Information Infrastructure documents
2) gopher sunsite.unc.edu (University of North Carolina)
To get to this gopher, type:
gopher sunsite.unc.edu
Sunsite Archives
11. What's New on SunSITE
3. National Information Infrastructure Information/
or:
5. Worlds of SunSITE -- by Subject
12. US and World Politics
17. Sunsite Political Science Archives
20. Internet-related Political Issues affecting the Internet
3) telnet gopher.nist.gov
Telnet to: gopher.nist.gov
login as "gopher". Choose the menu item "DOC
Documents".
C - VIA ANONYMOUS-FTP
FTP:
Address: ftp.ntia.doc.gov
Login as "anonymous". Use your email address or guest
as the password. Change directory to "pub".
Address: enh.nist.gov
Login as "anonymous" using "guest" as the password.
Address: isdres.er.usgs.gov
Login as "anonymous". Use your email address or "guest"
as the password. Change directory to npr.
Address: sunsite.unc.edu
Login as "anonymous". Use your email address as password
Change directory to:
pub/academic/political-science/internet-related
(NOTE: Vice-President Gore's Jan. 11 speech is located in:
pub/Politics/internet-related/VP-Speech-at-UCLA)
Address: whitehouse.gov
Login as "anonymous". Use your email address or "guest"
as the password. Change directory to:
pub/political-science/internet-related
The package also may be present in a self extracting
compressed file named "niiagend.exe". Remember to
issue the binary command before "getting" the
compressed file.
D -- VIA ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD
Bulletin Boards The package is available for downloading on
the following bulletin boards:
Name: NTIA Bulletin Board
Phone: (202) 482-1199
Communications parameters should be set to either 2400 or
9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit.
Name: Department of Commerce Economic Bulletin Board
Phone: 202-482-1986 (voice instructions for
subscription information)
This is a "fee for service" bulletin board. Subscribers may
download documents for normal on-line charges.
Non-subscribers may subscribe for $35 and download the report
for no additional charge. Free telnet access and download
services are available through the Internet by using the
address: ebb.stat-usa.gov. Use trial as your user id.
Name: FedWorld On-line Information Network
Phone: (703) 321-8020
Communications parameters should be set to either 2400 or
9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits and 1 stop bit.
Telnet access is available through the Internet using the
address: fedworld.doc.gov. Further information about
FedWorld can be obtained by calling (voice) 703-487-4648.
Name: U.S. Newswire
Phone: (410) 363-0834
E. IN HYPERTEXT
Yes! Documents about the National Information Infrastructure
are available in hypertext at the University of North Carolina!
Access this collection using clients such as Mosaic, World Wide
Wegb, lynx from:
URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu/unchome.html
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F. OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH ACE
Here is a short list on what is available through ACE. Although this shows only materials available through the email server, you should be able to find this information at the various locations mentioned above.
To get any of the catalogs below, send a message to:
almanac@ace.esusda.gov
In the body of the message, type:
FOR Type -----------------------------|-------------------------
National Performance Review send npr catalog NPR Related Press Releases send npr-press catalog
National Information Infrastr. send nii catalog Technology for Economic
Growth send nii-tech catalog
HEALTH SECURITY ACT INFORMATION:
Health Security Act send hsa catalog
Health Security Act: The
President's Report to the
People send health-book catalog Health Legislation send health-legis catalog HR3600 to the House send health-house catalog Section by Section Analysis of HR3600 send health-analysis catalog Health Security Act Related Press Releases send health-press catalog
North American Free Trade
Agreement send nafta catalog NAFTA Press Releases send nafta-press catalog Office of Techhnology Assessment send ota-report catalog Office of Science and Technology send ostp catalog NETRESULTS send netresults catalog
Mail Users Support
Environment (U.S. Govt.) send muse catalog
If you would like a guide to other documents available from this almanac information server, send the following one-line message to almanac@.esusda.gov:
send ace-catalog
If you would further instructions for using Almanac, send the following one-line message to almanac@ra.esusda.gov:
send guide
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Compiled by: Americans Communicating Electronically (ACE)
Date: 11 January 1994
For more information, send email to: info@ace.esusda.gov
and you will be sent information on ACE
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