Chapter Three. Planning for the Server

Ingredients:

· Intended Audience
· Services to Support
· Information Types to Support
· Information Management Tools to Support
· Available Resources

Take a liberal amount of your intended audience and the services you think they are likely to need. You can't be too generous here - you will never anticipate everyone's needs and how they will individually gobble up a good supply of information. Choose server software that can provide for this intended audience and add two other major ingredients: software for reading, writing, and filtering all the anticipated information types and sufficient resources, both hardware and human. Mix these ingredients together and you have a good plan in the making, with little chance of ending up with anything half-baked!

Table 3-1 Enhanced ftp Servers

Location ftp Servers

ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/-
pub/DEC/gwtools/ftpd.tar.Z DECwrl ftp

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/-
packages/wuarchive-ftpd/ wu-ftp, Washington University ftp server

Table 3-2 Mail Information Servers

Location Mail Information Servers

ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/-
nutshell/miis/miis.9412.tar.Z canned_reply

ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mail/ftpmail Ftpmail

Table 3-3 Popular Listservers

Location Listservers

http://www.lsoft.com/listserv.html LISTSERV

http://www.cren.net/www/-
listproc/description.html CREN's ListProc

ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo Majordomo

ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/-
pub/packages/procmail/-
SmartList.tar.gz SmartList

Table 3-4 Popular Web Servers

Location Web (http) Server

http://www.apache.org/apache Appache HTTP

http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/ EIT Webmasters Starter Kit

http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/ gn from John Franks

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/-
WWW/daemon/Status.html httpd from CERN

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs httpd from NCSA

http://www.netscape.com/-
comprod/netscape_commun.html Netscape

http://openmarket.com Webserver from Open Market

http://www.bsdi.com/server.doc/plexus.html Plexus from Tony Sanders at BSDI

http://hopf.math.nwu.edu wn from John Franks

Discussions and lists of Web servers:

http://www.proper.com/www/servers-chart.html
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/-
World_Wide_Web/HTTP/Servers/UNIX/
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Servers.html

Table 3-5 Common Information Types

Information Type Description Typical UNIX File Extensions

Text Any ASCII characters .txt, .doc, .java, .c

Tar Files and (optionally) directories of files represented as a single file created with the UNIX tar command .tar

Compressed Any file which has been compressed, typically with the UNIX compress and gzip commands .Z (compress) .
.gz (gzip)

Binary Bit-based data representation; may be architecture specific or neutral .obj , .exe, .class

Sound Contains digitized sound .snd, .au, .wav

Images and graphics Pixel-based representation .gif, .tif, .jpg, .pict, .pcx

Movies A series of images .mpeg, .mov, .moo

HyperText Markup
Language
Text containing markup recognized by Web browsers .html, .htm, .shtml

TeX Text containing markup recognized by the TeX or LaTeX programs .tex

TeX Intermediate file processed by Tex .dvi

PostScript Text and/or graphics in Adobe PostScript format .ps, .eps

Rich Text Format (RTF) Text interchange format developed by Microsoft .rtf

Mail files Files recognized by the UNIX mailer; may have been uuencoded

man pages
(troff/roff/nroff)
UNIX manual pages recognized by the UNIX troff, nroff and roff commands .1, .2, .3 etc.

Table 3-6 Compression Ratios for compress and gzip Given Various File Types

File Type compress gzip

Postscript file 6.25 9.55

binary file 2.93 4.25

tar file 2.87 3.78

Table 3-7 Common Sound Formats

Name File Extension Description

AIFF .aif, .aiff Silicon Graphics IRIX produced

.voc SoundBlaster prouced

HCOM none Macintosh produced

IFF/8SVX .iff Amiga produced

.mod, .nst Another Amiga format

WAVE .wav Microsoft Windows produced

-law .au, .snd NeXT and Sun produced

none .snd Macintosh produced

For a more detailed discussion of sound formats, see http://www.cis.ohiostate.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/audio-fmts/part1/faq.html.

You can read more about transparent images at the URL http://www.cowan.edu.au/ecawa/mbooka/giftrans.txt.

For further details on these and other graphics formats, see:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/utilities-faq/faq.html

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/faq/faq.html

For further information on movie formats, see:

http://www.det.mun.ca/staff/gporter/mmfaq.htm

http://www.ski.mskcc.org/browserwatch/browsers.html

http://www.browserwatch.com/

Table 3-8 Popular Web Browsers

Location HTML Browsers

ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/ Emacs WWW Browser

http://www.spyglass.com/index.html Enhanced Mosaic

http://java.sun.com/ HotJava

ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx Lynx

http://www.midas.slac.stanford.edu/
midasv22/-introduction.html MidasWWW

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic Mosaic

http://www.netscape.com.home/welcome.html Netscape Navigator

ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin/next/ NeXT

ftp://archive.cis.ohio-
state.edu/pub/w3browser/ perlWWW

http://www.commerce.net/software.Smosaic Secure Mosaic

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/-
WWW/TkWWW/Status.html TkWWW Browser Editor

ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/www/viola/ ViolaWWW

If you are a novice and unsure how to proceed, I would suggest you follow the crowd, as defined by the URLs:

http://www.gakit.caltech.edu/~ta/browsers/browsers.html
http://www.netaxs.com/~jayfar/sursays.html

Table 3-9 VRML Browsers

Location Description

http://www.lightside.com/~dani/cgi/
VRMLindex.html#browsers Browsers arranged by hardware platform and version of UNIX.

http://www.sdsc.edu/SDSC/
Partners/vrml/software/browsers.html Comprehensive list of browsers with a summary of features and version compliance information.

Table 3-10 Common Graphics Viewers, Editors, and Players

Location Viewers, Editors and Players

DVI Viewers

ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/ xdvi

http://gopher.awis.auburn.edu:70/
1/monthly/gifviewers/ GIF Viewers

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv xv

http://www.cis.ohio-
state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg-
faq/part2/faq-doc-3.html JPEG Viewers

ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/
applications/ImageMagick/
ImageMagick-3.7.1.tar.gz Image Magick

ftp://ftp.uu.net.graphics/jpeg/
jpegsrc.v5b.tar.gz JPEG Player

ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/
X11/R5contrib/ xloadimage

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv xv

Postscript Viewers

ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost Ghostscript

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv xv

http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/bawp/
sound_utilities.html#unix Audio Players

http://www.btg.com/FedWeb/archives.htm XPlayGizmo

MPEG Players

ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/
X11R6/contrib/applications MpegPlay

ftp://ftp.iuma.com/audio_utils/ Variety of MPEG players.

http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/
mpeg_play/mpeg_play.html Mpeg Player/MI

http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/tests/
tiff.html TIFF Viewers

ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/
X11/R5contrib/ xloadimage

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv xv

ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/
X11/R5contrib/ xpaint

Table 3-11 Reviews of Viewers, Editors, and Players

Location Description

http://cwsapps.cu-online.com/video.html Review of the major multimedia players.

http://www2.ncsu.edu/bae/people/
faculty/walker/hotlist/graphics.html Comprehensive list with pointers to related information such as descriptions of graphics formats.

http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/
imageproc/improc.html Includes pointers to some image processing tools not indicated at the other locations.

Table 3-12 Lists of HTML-based Filters

Location Description

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/
Tools/Filters.html. List of HTML-based filters.

http://www.yahoo.com/
Computers_and_Internet/Internet/
World_Wide_Web/HTML_Converters/
Shareware_Freeware/ List of HTML-based filters.

Table 3-13 Common Text and Graphics Filters

Location Information Type/Filter

Word Processing

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~meng
wong/txt2html ASCII TEXT to HTML

http://www.research.att.com/biblio.html
ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgshulz/
windex-1.2.tar.Z
BibTeX to HTML

ftp://ftp.cranfield.ac.uk/source/
info-tools/WWW/decw2html DECwrite to HTML

http://goya.ucs.ed.ac.uk/General/
epoch.html Emacs to HTML

ftp://ftp.nta.no/pub/ Frame2html

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/
WWW/Tools/il2html.html
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/
WWW/Tools/interleaf.html
Interleaf to HTML

http://cb1.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/
tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html LaTeX to HTML

http://stasi.bradley.edu/ftp/pub/
ps2html/ps2html-v2.html PostScript to HTML

ftp://ftp:.cray.com/src/WWWstuff/RTF/
rtftohtml_overview.html RTF to HTML

ftp://skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk/pub/tex2rtf TeX to RTF

http://asis01.cern.ch/infohtml/
texi2html.html Texinfo to HTML

http://cui_www.unige.ch/ftp/
PUBLIC/oscar/scripts/ms2html Troff to HTML

http://www.research.digital.com/
nsl/publications/TN-12.html Scribe to HTML

http://207.68.137.43:80/
msword/internet/ia/ Word to HTML (Internet Assistant)

Computer Languages

http://www.w3.org/hypertext/
WWW/Tools/ctohtml.txt C to HTML

http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/
c++2html.html C++ to HTML

http://vscrna.cern.ch/floppy/contents.html Fortran to HTML

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/
young/software/src2www.html Source to HTML

UNIX Mail Files to HTML

http://www.connect.org.uk/
techwatch/archive/unix/WWW/
MHonArc-1.0.jpg.html MHonArc

ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html Mail to HTML

Miscellaneous Text

ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html Hotlist to HTML

http://www.tile.net/tile/info/index.html Lotus Notes to HTML

http://www.stuff.com/~bcutter/
home/programs/bbc_man2html.html man pages to HTML

Graphics

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv xv

Table 3-14 Lists of HTML Editors

Location Description

http://204.91.49.11/hteds.htm Contains a brief review of each editor with good features and shortcoming indicated.

http://www.ccs.org/htmledit/
index.html#Overview Contains scores for each editor and a feature table.

http://sdg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mag/work/
HTMLEditors/unixlist.html Useful list of UNIX editors.

Table 3-15 Common HTML Editors

Location HTML Editors

ftp://ftp.cs.rpi.edu/pub/puninj/
ASHE/README.html Ashe

cwerner@ileaf.com Cyberleaf

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/html/
elisp/htmp-mode.el Emacs (in HTML mode)

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Frame/
http://ww1.cern.ch/Webmaker/
WEBMAKER.html
ftp://bang.nta.no/pub
ftp://ftp.alumni.caltech.edu/pub/
mcbeath/web/miftran
FrameMaker templates

http://www.tools.gnn.com/press-index.html GNNpress

http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/
njw/htmltext/htmltext.html htmltext

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/html/hotmetal HoTMetaL

ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/ jed

http://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/ftp/
pub/phoenix/README.html Phoenix

http://www.grif/fr/ Symposia

http://sdg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mag/
work/HTMLEditors/unixlist.html tkHTML

http://www.math.fuberlin.de/~guckes/vim/ Vim

Table 3-16 Common Search Tools

Location Search Tools

http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/ Harvest

http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/ Glimpse

ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/
freeWAIS-0.202.tar.Z
ftp://think.com/wais/
wais-corporate-paper.text
WAIS distribution

WAIS overview

Location	ftp Servers
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/- pub/DEC/gwtools/ftpd.tar.Z	DECwrl ftp
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/- packages/wuarchive-ftpd/	wu-ftp, Washington University ftp server

Location	Mail Information Servers
ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/oreilly/- nutshell/miis/miis.9412.tar.Z	canned_reply
ftp://ftp.sterling.com/mail/ftpmail	Ftpmail

Location	Listservers
http://www.lsoft.com/listserv.html	LISTSERV
http://www.cren.net/www/- listproc/description.html	CREN's ListProc
ftp://ftp.greatcircle.com/pub/majordomo	Majordomo
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/- pub/packages/procmail/- SmartList.tar.gz	SmartList

Location	Web (http) Server
http://www.apache.org/apache	Appache HTTP
http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/	EIT Webmasters Starter Kit
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/	gn from John Franks
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/- WWW/daemon/Status.html	httpd from CERN
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs	httpd from NCSA
http://www.netscape.com/- comprod/netscape_commun.html	Netscape
http://openmarket.com	Webserver from Open Market
http://www.bsdi.com/server.doc/plexus.html	Plexus from Tony Sanders at BSDI
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu	wn from John Franks

Information Type	Description	Typical UNIX File Extensions
Text	Any ASCII characters	.txt, .doc, .java, .c
Tar	Files and (optionally) directories of files represented as a single file created with the UNIX tar command	.tar
Compressed	Any file which has been compressed, typically with the UNIX compress and gzip commands	.Z (compress) . .gz (gzip)
Binary	Bit-based data representation; may be architecture specific or neutral	.obj , .exe, .class
Sound	Contains digitized sound	.snd, .au, .wav
Images and graphics	Pixel-based representation	.gif, .tif, .jpg, .pict, .pcx
Movies	A series of images	.mpeg, .mov, .moo
HyperText Markup Language	Text containing markup recognized by Web browsers	.html, .htm, .shtml
TeX	Text containing markup recognized by the TeX or LaTeX programs	.tex
TeX	Intermediate file processed by Tex	.dvi
PostScript	Text and/or graphics in Adobe PostScript format	.ps, .eps
Rich Text Format (RTF)	Text interchange format developed by Microsoft	.rtf
Mail files	Files recognized by the UNIX mailer; may have been uuencoded
man pages (troff/roff/nroff)	UNIX manual pages recognized by the UNIX troff, nroff and roff commands	.1, .2, .3 etc.

File Type	compress	gzip
Postscript file	6.25	9.55
binary file	2.93	4.25
tar file	2.87	3.78

Name	File Extension	Description
AIFF	.aif, .aiff	Silicon Graphics IRIX produced
	.voc	SoundBlaster prouced
HCOM	none	Macintosh produced
IFF/8SVX	.iff	Amiga produced
	.mod, .nst	Another Amiga format
WAVE	.wav	Microsoft Windows produced
-law	.au, .snd	NeXT and Sun produced
none	.snd	Macintosh produced

Location	HTML Browsers
ftp://moose.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/	Emacs WWW Browser
http://www.spyglass.com/index.html	Enhanced Mosaic
http://java.sun.com/	HotJava
ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx	Lynx
http://www.midas.slac.stanford.edu/ midasv22/-introduction.html	MidasWWW
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic	Mosaic
http://www.netscape.com.home/welcome.html	Netscape Navigator
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin/next/	NeXT
ftp://archive.cis.ohio- state.edu/pub/w3browser/	perlWWW
http://www.commerce.net/software.Smosaic	Secure Mosaic
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/- WWW/TkWWW/Status.html	TkWWW Browser Editor
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/www/viola/	ViolaWWW

Location	Description
http://www.lightside.com/~dani/cgi/ VRMLindex.html#browsers	Browsers arranged by hardware platform and version of UNIX.
http://www.sdsc.edu/SDSC/ Partners/vrml/software/browsers.html	Comprehensive list of browsers with a summary of features and version compliance information.

Location	Viewers, Editors and Players
	DVI Viewers
ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/	xdvi
http://gopher.awis.auburn.edu:70/ 1/monthly/gifviewers/	GIF Viewers
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv	xv
http://www.cis.ohio- state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/jpeg- faq/part2/faq-doc-3.html	JPEG Viewers
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/ applications/ImageMagick/ ImageMagick-3.7.1.tar.gz	Image Magick
ftp://ftp.uu.net.graphics/jpeg/ jpegsrc.v5b.tar.gz	JPEG Player
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/ X11/R5contrib/	xloadimage
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv	xv
	Postscript Viewers
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost	Ghostscript
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv	xv
http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/bawp/ sound_utilities.html#unix	Audio Players
http://www.btg.com/FedWeb/archives.htm	XPlayGizmo
	MPEG Players
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/ X11R6/contrib/applications	MpegPlay
ftp://ftp.iuma.com/audio_utils/	Variety of MPEG players.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/ mpeg_play/mpeg_play.html	Mpeg Player/MI
http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/tests/ tiff.html	TIFF Viewers
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/ X11/R5contrib/	xloadimage
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv	xv
ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/ X11/R5contrib/	xpaint

Location	Description
http://cwsapps.cu-online.com/video.html	Review of the major multimedia players.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/bae/people/ faculty/walker/hotlist/graphics.html	Comprehensive list with pointers to related information such as descriptions of graphics formats.
http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/ imageproc/improc.html	Includes pointers to some image processing tools not indicated at the other locations.

Location	Description
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/ Tools/Filters.html.	List of HTML-based filters.
http://www.yahoo.com/ Computers_and_Internet/Internet/ World_Wide_Web/HTML_Converters/ Shareware_Freeware/	List of HTML-based filters.

Location	Information Type/Filter
	Word Processing
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~meng wong/txt2html	ASCII TEXT to HTML
http://www.research.att.com/biblio.html ftp://gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgshulz/ windex-1.2.tar.Z	BibTeX to HTML
ftp://ftp.cranfield.ac.uk/source/ info-tools/WWW/decw2html	DECwrite to HTML
http://goya.ucs.ed.ac.uk/General/ epoch.html	Emacs to HTML
ftp://ftp.nta.no/pub/	Frame2html
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/ WWW/Tools/il2html.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/ WWW/Tools/interleaf.html	Interleaf to HTML
http://cb1.leeds.ac.uk/nikos/ tex2html/doc/latex2html/latex2html.html	LaTeX to HTML
http://stasi.bradley.edu/ftp/pub/ ps2html/ps2html-v2.html	PostScript to HTML
ftp://ftp:.cray.com/src/WWWstuff/RTF/ rtftohtml_overview.html	RTF to HTML
ftp://skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk/pub/tex2rtf	TeX to RTF
http://asis01.cern.ch/infohtml/ texi2html.html	Texinfo to HTML
http://cui_www.unige.ch/ftp/ PUBLIC/oscar/scripts/ms2html	Troff to HTML
http://www.research.digital.com/ nsl/publications/TN-12.html	Scribe to HTML
http://207.68.137.43:80/ msword/internet/ia/	Word to HTML (Internet Assistant)
	Computer Languages
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/ WWW/Tools/ctohtml.txt	C to HTML
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/ c++2html.html	C++ to HTML
http://vscrna.cern.ch/floppy/contents.html	Fortran to HTML
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ young/software/src2www.html	Source to HTML
	UNIX Mail Files to HTML
http://www.connect.org.uk/ techwatch/archive/unix/WWW/ MHonArc-1.0.jpg.html	MHonArc
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html	Mail to HTML
	Miscellaneous Text
ftp://ftp.uci.edu/pub/dtd2html	Hotlist to HTML
http://www.tile.net/tile/info/index.html	Lotus Notes to HTML
http://www.stuff.com/~bcutter/ home/programs/bbc_man2html.html	man pages to HTML
	Graphics
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv	xv

Location	Description
http://204.91.49.11/hteds.htm	Contains a brief review of each editor with good features and shortcoming indicated.
http://www.ccs.org/htmledit/ index.html#Overview	Contains scores for each editor and a feature table.
http://sdg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mag/work/ HTMLEditors/unixlist.html	Useful list of UNIX editors.

Location	HTML Editors
ftp://ftp.cs.rpi.edu/pub/puninj/ ASHE/README.html	Ashe
cwerner@ileaf.com	Cyberleaf
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/html/ elisp/htmp-mode.el	Emacs (in HTML mode)
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Frame/ http://ww1.cern.ch/Webmaker/ WEBMAKER.html ftp://bang.nta.no/pub ftp://ftp.alumni.caltech.edu/pub/ mcbeath/web/miftran	FrameMaker templates
http://www.tools.gnn.com/press-index.html	GNNpress
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/homes/ njw/htmltext/htmltext.html	htmltext
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/html/hotmetal	HoTMetaL
ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/jed/	jed
http://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/ftp/ pub/phoenix/README.html	Phoenix
http://www.grif/fr/	Symposia
http://sdg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~mag/ work/HTMLEditors/unixlist.html	tkHTML
http://www.math.fuberlin.de/~guckes/vim/	Vim

Location	Search Tools
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/	Harvest
http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu:1994/	Glimpse
ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/ freeWAIS-0.202.tar.Z ftp://think.com/wais/ wais-corporate-paper.text	WAIS distribution WAIS overview