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Grex Helpers Item 14: Gosh, I didn't know THAT!
Entered by rcurl on Wed Sep 14 13:23:24 UTC 1994:

This Item is for describing "discoveries" made by helpers in the course
of helping others. Such things are often just a little obscure, or
non-obvious, or even particularly useful.

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by rcurl on Wed Sep 14 13:27:55 1994:

I was asked by a helpee for the phone number of M-Net. I don't have it
written down, so I telnetted to M-Net, hoping to find the number in the
welcome motd. It wasn't there, so I tried their menu "shell", to hunt
for M-Net info. A little menu searching found a list of all the BBSs
in the Ann Arbor area - and a place to get a lot of other information
about Internet hosts, etc. So, back on Grex, I tried the same thing,
and found that the M-Net and Grex menu shells are very similar, and the
same BBS and other information is here too. Just follow the menu choices
O, B and A to BBSs, and browse on other goodies along the way.

#2 of 12 by popcorn on Wed Sep 14 13:54:21 1994:

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#3 of 12 by popcorn on Wed Sep 14 13:54:55 1994:

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#4 of 12 by rcurl on Wed Sep 14 16:12:30 1994:

Thank you! Hmmm....first thing I did on M-Net was enter phones - or
maybe, phone. I didn't notice which BBS list was more recent, though
Grex showed a Sci Fi BBS, which M-Net didn't.

#5 of 12 by kentn on Tue Dec 20 17:44:59 1994:

This suggestion/discovery didn't come about from dealing with a helpee,
but I ran across it anyway.  Since the "What book should I get?"
question seems to pop up frequently from new users (and experienced
users also have a need for book recommendations from time to time),
let me suggest you helpers find a central place for the following
file:  /u/kentn/unix.books
 
This is Samuel Ko's latest annotated Unix book list and is worth a
look, I think.  He lists not only books based on popularity, but also
those recommended frequently on the net, and those he just plain
likes.  The list covers beginner's books through expert's books and
topics related to Unix and the Internet.  Have a look at the file and
then grab it and put it somewhere if you think it's of value in your
efforts.  (It's about 54K long).

#6 of 12 by robh on Tue Dec 20 23:45:50 1994:

That sounds decent, I've only gotten that question a few times,
but I'm always flummoxed by it.  Come on, I didn't need any beginner's
books, why should anyone else?  >8)

#7 of 12 by arianna on Tue Sep 3 16:40:29 1996:

I guess this is not *quite* what this item's about, but it's applicable:
        Today I endeavored to read the helper cf (the whole thing, that is,)
and I've learned more about grex in the past hour than I have in my entire
year here.   (And whoever handles the finances here will be seeing my
membership fee in the mail soon.... (= )  Great work, everybody!

#8 of 12 by popcorn on Wed Sep 4 02:49:26 1996:

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#9 of 12 by janc on Wed Sep 18 02:30:37 1996:

I've installed a new command worth pointing newbie users at:

        !forward

This is a little script for making, destroying and changing .forward files.
It is very wordy, and it does a trivial task, but enough users seem to have
trouble following simple directions like "do !pico .forward and type the
email address" that it seemed worth doing.

#10 of 12 by robh on Wed Sep 18 05:18:01 1996:

Very good idea.  Thanks!

#11 of 12 by popcorn on Wed Sep 18 16:19:35 1996:

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#12 of 12 by janc on Wed Sep 18 16:40:43 1996:

Cool.

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