James C. French

Wide Area Technical Report Service (WATERS) is a distributed database of computer science technical reports. Contributors are departments of computer science that make their reports, stored locally at their sites, available through World-Wide Web and a WAIS search engine. By using WATERS, anyone with access to the Internet can, using a client such as Mosaic browse, search, obtain abstract and bibliographic information, and retrieve technical reports online. The latter assumes that the user's WWW client is set up to launch viewers such as ghostview for Postscript files, xdvi for dvi files, and xtiff for TIFF page images.