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- Document Responsibility in PennInfo
- ===================================
-
- There are over 70 providers of information in PennInfo. Each provider
- is responsible for the information they contribute. Users of PennInfo
- are accustomed to being able to identify who is responsible for any
- topic on any menu in PennInfo through the use of a 'Get Info' option.
- This functionality is not natively available in Gopher software at
- this time.
-
- An alternative mechanism has been created by Data Communications
- and Computing Services (DCCS) to allow Gopher users to identify
- which organization at the University of Pennsylvania is responsible
- for PennInfo information:
-
-
- Step 1
- ======
- Use your gopher client to request information about the PennInfo topic.
- Use whatever mechanism is provided by your application to get this
- information.
-
-
- Step 2
- ======
- Look at the 'Path' information and note the last word in the path. The
- last word in the path is the organization responsible for the PennInfo
- information (known as a 'Source'). For example, the Unix gopher client
- displays the following information about a topic on a menu called
- 'PennInfo Version 3.9 Available':
-
- Name=PennInfo Version 3.9 Available
- Type=0
- Port=71
- Path=D penninfo-srv.upenn.edu 9000 8615 Admin
- ^^^^^
- Notice that the last word in the 'Path' is 'Admin.' This means that
- 'Admin' is the organization that contributed the information -- the
- 'Source'.
-
-
- Step 3
- ======
- Now that you have the name of 'Source,' you can search the document
- 'Providers of Information (Sources) List' to retrieve the contact name,
- phone number, and an electronic mail address associated with your
- 'Source.'
-
- * Note: the 'Providers of Information (Sources) List' appears at the
- bottom of all PennInfo menus (merged with this instructional document)
- that are displayed via the Gopher gateway.
-
-
-