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- Gopher client for IBM PC
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- Version 1.1 of the PC Gopher client is now available by anonymous
- FTP from boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory
- pub/gopher/PC_client/version_1.20
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- About Gopher:
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- The Internet Gopher is a distributed document delivery service.
- It allows a neophyte user to access various types of data
- residing on multiple hosts in a seamless fashion. This is
- accomplished by presenting the user a hierarchical arrangement
- of documents and by using a client-server communications model.
- In addition to browsing through hierarchies of documents, gopher
- users can submit queries to gopher search servers. The search
- servers typically have full-text indexes for a set of gopher
- documents; the responce to a query is a list of documents that
- matched the search criteria.
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- Internet Gopher servers accept simple queries (sent over a TCP
- connection), and respond by sending the client a document or a
- list of documents. Since this is a distributed protocol there can
- be many servers... but the client software hides this fact from
- the user. We currently use this technology at the University of
- Minnesota to help support microcomputer users... a couple of gopher
- servers have 6000-7000 computer Q&A items that users can search
- for answers to their questions. In addition, there are also gopher
- servers with recipes and other fun stuff.
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- The PC Gopher client runs on most networked PCs, but requires that
- you have loaded the appropriate Clarkson packet driver for your network
- ethernet card. The PC gopher software has a TurboVision user interface
- so both keyboard and mouse are supported... and you don't need to run
- MS Windows.
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- If you want more information about the Gopher protocol, you can anonymous
- FTP to boombox.micro.umn.edu and look in the /pub/gopher directory tree.
- Currently there are gopher clients for Mac, PC and Unix (curses-based)
- available from the University of Minnesota. The University of St. Thomas
- wrote a NeXT gopher client available for anonymous ftp from
- cs.stthomas.edu (140.209.5.1)
- directory gopher, file Gopher_1.0b.tar.Z (51605 bytes).
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- You can subscribe to a mailing list for announcemnets of new gopher
- servers and software by sending a request to:
- gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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- You can send e-mail to the gopher development team at:
- gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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- Daniel A. Torrey
- Distributed Services and Planning
- Computer and Information Services
- University of Minnesota
- daniel@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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