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From NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML: "The World Wide Web uses Uniform Resource
Locators (URLs) to specify the location of files on other servers. A URL
includes the type of resource being accessed (e.g., gopher, WAIS), the address
of the server, and the location of the file."
This is a useful little document. To see it, look up:
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Stephen P. Victor svictor -at- lgc -dot- com
Landmark Graphics Corporation http://www.cda.ulpgc.es/steve.html
15150 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77009 USA
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