We would like to take this opportunity to announce several new items which
have been added to the UT-LANIC gopher server.
1) Mexico's electoral aftermath and political future (conference)
Synthesis/Memoria of the Papers Presented at a Bi-National Conference Held
at The University of Texas at Austin, Sept. 2-3, 1994. The conference was
organized by the Mexican Center of ILAS. The conference covered topics
including the New Electoral Landscape; Reform of the COFIPE; Party Access to
the Media; and Mexico's Political Future.
Full text of the Synthesis/Memoria can be found under the LANIC main menu
at:
8. Latin America/
11. Mexico/
13. Mexico's Electoral Aftermath & Political Future-Memoria/
2) The Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (UNI) in Managua has recently
opened up Nicaragua's first gopher server. It can be accessed from the
LANIC main menu at:
8. Latin America/
12. Nicaragua/
3) Several new gophers in other Latin American countries can now be
accessed via LANIC. These include:
Escuela de Agricultura de la Region Tropical Humeda-EARTH (Costa Rica)
SINICYT - CONICIT (Costa Rica)
Universidad de Carabobo (Venezuela)
Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisica (Argentina)
Universidad Tecnica Federico St. Maria (Chile)
Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso (Chile)
Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile)
Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educacion (Chile)
Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile)
Universidad del Bio-bio (Chile)
Asociacion Laboral para el Desarrollo (Peru)
CIED (Conferencia de Investigacion Agroecologica) (Peru)
Centenario de Nacimiento de Jose Carlos Mariategui (Peru)
Centro de Invest. Social y Educ. Popular (ALTERNATIVA) (Peru)
Congreso Constituyente Democratico (CCD) (Peru)
Inst. de Ingenieros Electricistas y Electronicos (IEE) (Peru)
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru)
For those of you who are new to LASNET and have not yet used UT-LANIC,
here are the instructions for accessing:
UT-LANIC can be accessed via four major interfaces: Gopher client,
E-Mail, Telnet, and World-Wide Web (WWW):
1) Gopher Client:
If you have access to local Internet gopher client software, point
it to:
lanic.utexas.edu 70
If you have access to local UNIX or other Internet hosts, but do
not know if there exists a gopher client on your system, please
try:
gopher lanic.utexas.edu
2) E-Mail Access:
If you only have e-mail access to computer network, just send an
e-mail message without body text to:
UT-LANIC GopherMail Server will automatically reply by sending you
its main gopher menu with brief instruction. Then you may follow
the instructions, and use your e-mail to access UT-LANIC and the
Internet.
3) Telnet Login:
Log on to your local UNIX system or other computer systems with
Internet connection (using VT100 terminal emulation), and type
telnet lanic.utexas.edu
login: lanic
4) Mosaic (WWW):
If you have a WWW client such as Mosaic, point it to:
If you have any questions or comments, please send a message to
UT-LANIC staff at the following address: