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- The Internet Gopher client/server provides a distributed information
- delivery system around which a world/campus-wide information system (CWIS)
- can readily be constructed. While providing a delivery vehicle for local
- information, Gopher facilitates access to other Gopher and information
- servers throughout the world.
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- Gopher appears to the user as a set of menus. At each menu, an item can be
- selected, or the user may retrace their steps to the previous menu.
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- Selecting menu items can lead to a variety of actions
- being performed, including displaying another menu, displaying a
- file, transferring a binary file, searching an index.
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- In this implementation of Gopher, AmigaGuide is used as the user interface,
- and menu items can be selected by clicking on them. Reverting to the
- previous menu is accomplished by using the standard AmigaGuide Retrace
- button. Closing all the AmigaGuide windows terminates the Gopher session.
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- The distribution archive contains the following files:
- Gopher the program itself
- Startup an amigaguide file to provide a basis for the user interface
- Bookmarks a list of handy gopher pages
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- To install:
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- Unpack Gopher into AmiTCP:bin/
- Unpack GopherStartup and GopherBookmarks into AmiTCP:db/
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- Start Gopher by issuing the GOPHER command from a CLI, whilst
- AmiTCP is running.
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- Contact Graham Walter <agopher@gwalter.demon.co.uk> with problems etc.
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