Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Netlib User's Guide
• Repository Contents
  • Software and Documents
  • Performance Database
  • Conferences Database
  • Address and bibliography databases
  • Metacontents
  • Remote Execution
• User Interfaces
  • World Wide Web
  • Email
    • Support Addresses
    • Email Interface to the Netlib Repository
    • Email Interface to NA-NET
    • Email Interface to the NA-NET Whitepages
  • X Windows Interface - the Xnetlib Client
    • Acquiring the Xnetlib Software
    • System Requirements
    • Building Xnetlib
    • Xnetlib Man Page and Quick Reference Card
    • Xnetlib Client Program Operation
    • Command Line Options
    • Application Defaults File
    • Support Address
  • Netlibget, a Command-line TCP/IP Client
  • Anonymous Access
    • Instructions for Anonymous FTP
    • Instructions for Anonymous RCP and RSH
  • Access via Gopher
• Future Plans
• Netlib System Manager's Guide
• Netlib Repository Setup and Maintenance
  • Netlib Index File Format
  • Repository Replication in Netlib
• Email Netlib Server Installation
  • Acquiring and Installing the Netlib Software
• NA-NET Database Setup and Maintenance
  • Acquiring the NA-NET Software
  • The NA-NET Program
  • NA-NET Files
  • File Formats
  • NA-NET Source Files
  • Database Changes, Backups, and Cron Jobs
  • Sending to Digest Subscribers
  • Surgery
• Installation and Customization of the Xnetlib Client
  • Acquiring the Xnetlib Software
  • System Requirements
  • Building Xnetlib
  • Customization of Xnetlib
    • X Resources
• Installing and Running Nlrexecd
  • Acquiring the Nlrexecd Software
  • System Requirements
  • Building Nlrexecd
  • Services and Protocol
    • Adding a Service to Nlrexecd
    • Reserved Service Names
  • Command Line Options
  • Keyword and Database Lookup Services
    • Keyword Lookup
    • Latent Semantic Indexing
    • Whois Service
    • Performance Database Service
    • Conference Database Service
• Anonymous FTP Server for Netlib
• Netlib Anonymous RCP Implementation
  • ``anon'' Account
  • Invocation of Anonymous RCP
  • anon-shell
  • Modified rcp and ls commands
  • Locations of files
• Netlib Sites
  • Sites Mirroring the Netlib Repository
  • Some Sites Using the Netlib Email Server to Distribute Other Types of Software
• References
• Index
• About this document ...

Netlib Services and Resources

Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Eric Grosse, Stan Green,
Keith Moore, Tom Rowan, and Reed Wade