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While the network is important at Harvard, it's not, by any means, the most important part of life at the school. Students still study for classes, write for publications, struggle for extracurricular leadership positions and sneak into the Crimson Sports Grille. They just occasionally head for NCSA Telnet when they get home...
Before we close this week, an addendum to my recent column on HOLLIS Plus: Thanks to several members of the University Library staff for pointing out that telnet, the software used to access many of HOLLIS Plus features, automatically quits when you press Control-X. Thus, if you are lost inside HOLLIS Plus and cannot use gopher menus (which include navigation commands at the bottom of the screen) to find your way home, hitting Control-X should bring you back to a familiar gopher menu...
...search could even encompass the student.harvard.edu machines that is, undergraduates' personal computers. Only "finger" databases (which most undergrads don't have) are perused, however, so students need not fear that netfind will pry further into their systems. To try netfind yourself, telnet to ds.inter.net and log in as "netfind...
...decentralized network rather than a single computer system, you have to make a fresh connection to a remote machine every time you want to get something done. As long as getting around the Net required memorizing computer addresses and mastering programs with names such as FTP and Telnet, most computer users preferred to window- shop at the online malls...
...read the full catalog, system users will need to telnet to or configure Gopher to connect to "courses. Harvard. edu (128.103.60.60). Then users should type "courses" at the login prompt...