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Mastering Intranet and Internet Technology |
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Data Search and Retrieval
All data on the Internet is kept in a file somewhere. To access or retrieve that data we may take a copy of a file in full or use some management program to retrieve and send us the information required.
- Gopher (and Veronica)
- Archie
- WAIS
- WWW Interfaces
Traditionally data was stored in text based systems
Latest systems store graphics, and audio and video clips.
| System | Characters | Case
Sensitive | Spaces |
| Unix | 24/256 | YES | no |
| Macintosh | 27 | not | allowed |
| DOS/Windows | 8.3 | not | no |
| OS/2 HPFS | 254 | not | no |
| Windows 95 | 256 | not | allowed |
| Windows NT | 256 | some | allowed |
See Some Common File Extensions in the Appendix.
- FTP
- NFS
- Email
- Newsgroups
- Method
- Search, THEN
- Retrieve
- Other Clients
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Web Author: Geoff May |
Last Update: 31/08/2001 |
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