Updated Electronic Phone Book Avaiable on UNT Gopher

By Mark Thacker, CWIS Coordinator (thacker@unt.edu)

The electronic phone book available in the UNT Information & Resources area of the UNT Gopher has been updated to include the latest faculty/staff information. The update includes electronic mail addresses of those faculty/staff wishing to provide it.

The update also allows you to search by phone number (office and home) as well as electronic addresses. Note that with most Gopher clients (DOS, UNIX and Windows) the search is an exact match only. This means that you might not be able to search for phone numbers containing a certain string. The Mac TurboGopher client and the Windows HGopher client allow you to search (in all valid search fields) for records that begin with a certain string (for example "(817)565-").

Phone numbers (both office and home) are now in the (xxx)xxx-xxxx" format. So, all on-campus office phone numbers begin with "(817)565-". This was done so that people using our phone book from off-campus locations on the Internet would also have the area code (someone in Minnesota doesn't necessarily know that UNT is in the 817 area code). Student records have not been updated to this form yet.

I expect to update the phone book again to include the most recent student information early in the Spring 1994 semester. Look for another announcement in Benchmarks soon.


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