Subscribing to Postmodern Culture
and Obtaining Back Issues
HOW TO GET PMC BY E-MAIL:
To automatically receive the table of contents each time
a new issue is published, send an email message to the internet address
listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu with the one and only line:
subscribe pmc-list [your name]
To retrieve the items listed in the table of contents,
send a mail message to listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu, containing as its one
and only line the command
get pmc-list [fn.ft]
(replace [fn.ft] with the filename and filetype for the
file you want to receive, as listed in the table of contents). There should
be no blank lines, spaces, or other text preceding this line--however,
you can type more than one get command in your mail to listserv, as long
as each command is on its own line.
More detailed Listserv instructions are available in the
file NEWUSER.PREFACE: to retrieve this file, send mail to listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu
with the command
get pmc-list newuser.preface
HOW TO GET PMC BY ANONYMOUS FTP:
All PMC files are available via anonymous ftp; to retrieve
items in this way, you will need to be on the internet. To connect to the
ftp server, type the following at your command prompt, hitting the enter
key at the end of each line of commands:
ftp jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Once you are connected, you can log in as "anonymous"
or "ftp" using your email userid as a password. When you have
logged in, type:
cd pub/pubs/pmc/issue.596
To make sure that the ftp program expects to transfer
ascii text, type
ascii
at this point. Now you can transfer individual files or
groups of files. To transfer an individual file--for example, this table
of contents--type:
get contents.596
You will probably need to use only lowercase letters when
you ask ftp for PMC files.
To transfer a group of files--for example, the entire
January, 1996 issue of PMC--type:
prompt mget *.596
When you're done with your file tranfer, type "quit"
to return to your own command prompt.
HOW TO GET PMC BY GOPHER:
If you have access to a gopher client, you will find PMC's
gopher server at:
jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Once you've connected, choose "Publications of the
Institute" and then choose "Postmodern Culture": you will
find a menu listing all published issues of the journal, and within each
issue, full text of all the issue's contents.
HOW TO GET PMC BY WORLD-WIDE WEB:
If you have access to a World-Wide Web client, you will
find the hypermedia version of PMC at:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html
Once you've connected, you will find all back issues arranged
by volume and issue, but also arranged by category (all the reviews, all
the popular culture columns, all the creative works, etc.). Free clients
for the Web are available from FTP.NCSA.UIUC.EDU, for Windows, Macintosh,
and Unix platforms. To use Mosaic, you will need a direct (ethernet-type)
connection to the internet (or SLIP--Serial Line Internet Protocol--software
and a lot of patience). If you would like to see a text-only version of
the Web PMC, connect to the gopher server and choose "Lynx session"
from the main menu: you'll find PMC under "Publications of the Institute."
IF NONE OF THE ABOVE WORKS FOR YOU, CONTACT THE EDITORS
AT pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
FORMAT:
The E-Mail version of _Postmodern Culture_ uses only ASCII
text (the character-code common to all personal computers). Journal text
is formatted with a 65-character line, and you will get best results by
setting one-inch margins and selecting font Courier 10 before importing
journal files into a word-processing program.
The World-Wide Web version of _Postmodern Culture_ is
marked up using HTML (hypertext markup language), a DTD (document-type
definition) of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
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For disks or fiche mailed to Canada add $3 postage; outside North America,
add $7. Single issues are available for $6 (U.S.), $7 (Canada) or $8 (elsewhere).
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SUBMISSIONS to the journal can be made by electronic mail, on disk, or
in hard copy; disk submissions should be in WordPerfect or ASCII format,
but if this is not possible please indicate the program and operating system
used. The current MLA format is recommended for documentation in essays;
a list of the text- formatting conventions used by Postmodern Culture for
ASCII text is available on request.
