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Gerhard Gonter <[log in to unmask]> said: >Pat Connor said: >>... >>BUT REED online in SGML would mean that someone would have to provide >>SGML clients for our systems (like GOPHER and ARCHIE clients) to >>interpret the data and feed it into our local interfaces. > >Someone has done this already, and like all good things on Internet, >it's free. (No it's not Windows NT.) > >Worldwide Web (WWW) is an SGML Intenet-wide distributed hypertext system, >interfaces to Gopher (and I think also to WAIS) are already existing. >For more information you might want to ftp to info.cern.ch and have a >look on the files in /pub/www, especially the postscript docs there. I was hoping someone more familiar than I with WWW might reply to this thread, but since they haven't I feel compelled to say that although WWW is in *some* instances SGML aware, it is not, in fact, an SGML system. WWW is much more closely related to TeX than it is to SGML, and has a different set of priorities. It is certainly possible to port SGML-encoded documents to WWW (several Women Writers Project texts have been so moved), but it is not quite as automatic a process as Mr. Gonter seems to be implying. Elaine Brennan Assistant Director, Women Writers Project Brown University Providence, RI 02912 USA [log in to unmask]