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- From: powers@ELROS.STG.TRW.COM
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- Subject: Re: Need VMS Gopher Client
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 20:36:15 GMT
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- tihor@acf3.nyu.edu (Stephen Tihor):
- > the gopher client seems to be missing the link file.
- > The Xgopher client seems to need the DEC C RTL rather than the
- > VAXCRTL (eg the ansi C stuff.)
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- 1. I believe that link files are things used only by gopher servers. I have
- no link file with my gopher client on VMS, and the software doesn't
- miss it. As I recall, the only external file needed by the client is
- the help file.
-
- 2. The VMS Xgopher client from Ohio State (FTP job.acs.ohio-state.edu)
- uses the plain ol' VAXCRTL. One problem with the Xgopher client: It
- will crash mysteriously and with great violence if it hits a security
- restriction on your own local computers. I don't recall the nature
- of the crashes -- access violations or worse (probably worse) -- but I do
- remember that it is VERY misleading. That could, perhaps, lead a person
- to mistakenly think that there is a RTL problem or some other weird thing.
-
- Lester Powers
- powers@elros.stg.trw.com
- (E-mail receipt iffy here -- no electricity for our domain nameservers)
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