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AW		Addison Wesley, code samples for Mach

associations	Associations and Membership Organizations

archives        Mailing lists and USENET newsgroup archives

books		Book Publishers and Bookstores

bcs		Information and calendars for the Boston Computer Society,
		one of the oldest and largest computer user groups in
		the world.

Kluwer		Kluwer Publishing, Inc. style guides.

nonprofits      Non-profit organizations.

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OBS		The Online BookStore, free texts.

periodicals     Newpapers, Magazines, and Journals.

pub		Various, including DSPdev's DaDISP demo software and MetaCard's
		GUI/Hypermedia demos.

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src		Our source archives, Unix, Mac, PC, OS/2 etc.
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		with over 500MB each. Others are auto-mounts (NFS)
		of other source directories.

vendors         Products and services available for sale.

world-info	Information about getting your own account on world.std.com
                and other World services.

The following archives have been relocated to /ftp/archives.

info-futures	Back issues of the mailing list INFO-FUTURES@WORLD.STD.COM
		(topic is near-term future of computing and hi-technology.)

RAT-archives	Rec.Arts.Theatre USENET newsgroup archive


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