Accessing on-line Technical Reports

UC Berkeley Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Robotics and Manufacturing (RAMP), Project Sequoia, and ERL technical reports are accessible by FTP, GOPHER, or MOSAIC/WWW/http.

TO ACCESS REPORTS VIA HTTP CLIENTS (MOSAIC, LYNX, ETC.):

1. Using you Mosaic client, open the URL ``http://cs-tr.cs.berkeley.edu/''

2. You will find all reports from all series mixed together. However, you can browse them by author, by number, or search in a number of ways.

   (If you are on a UNIX workstation, your Mosaic client is likely to be called ``xmosaic'' . There is a Mosaic client for the Mac available for free on IS&T's WSS Cornucopia server. (There is also reportedly one for the Windows on the PC.) ``lynx''is a client for dumb terminals (but what's the point?))

TO ACCESS REPORTS VIA GOPHER:

1. Access the UCB Computer Science gopher server by running your gopher client with the argument ``gopher.cs.berkeley.edu''.

2. Make the following selections:

   EECS Department (and related services)/ Berkeley Electronic Library - Technical Report Series (ftp)/
   
   Then select the technical report series of your choice.

3. Please read the COPYRIGHT notice in this directory. The selection ``Allbibs'' will give you the bibliographic reports of all the reports.

4. Select the report entry you want, e.g., ``cogsci-82-03''.

5. You will see a number of entries. ``bib'' will give you bibliographic information; ``all.ps'' is the report in Postscript. (Entries of the form ``all.ps.Z'' need to be uncompressed after retrieval via the UNIX ``uncompress'' utility.)

   (There are gopher clients available for most architectures. Try ``gopher'' or ``xgopher'' on your UNIX workstation; there is a free gopher client for the Mac available from the WSS's cornucopia server.)

TO ACCESS REPORTS VIA FTP:

1. The reports are on the machine ``cs-tr.cs.berkeley.edu'', in the directories ``pub/tech-reports/{csd,cogsci,erl,ramp,sequoia}''. They are available via ``anonymous ftp''. (Ask you local support person for help if you are unfamiliar with ftp.)

2. Please read the COPYRIGHT notice in this directory. The file ``Allbibs'' contains bibliographic reports of all the reports.

3. Each report is in its own directory, e.g., ``cogsci-82-03''. Inside each such directory is a ``bib'' file of bibliographic information, and a ``all.ps'' file, which is the report in Postscript. Use the ftp ``get'' command to retrieve what you want. (Files of the form ``all.ps.Z'' need to be uncompressed via the UNIX ``uncompress'' utility.)