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- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 10:11:07 EDT
- Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- From: Jim Gerland - Network User Support <GERLAND@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
- Subject: #2 Getting Connected
- To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- GETTING CONNECTED
-
- There are several ways to get information from a Gopher server. On
- a Unix, VMS, or CMS system, if a Gopher client is installed, preferably
- by the systems' administrator, all you have to do is type the word
- "gopher" at the system prompt. The machine immediately takes over
- and goes out to retrieve a menu from a Gopher server-the first door
- to what is called "Gopherspace"
-
- You may have a DOS or windows or Mac menuing system that allows you to
- click on a Gopher item that gives you direct connection or an
- X window system that will start at a command. It depends on your
- system and if a Gopher client has been installed.
-
- Networks, however, do crash from time to time, or are down for
- maintenance, etc, so using a substitute Gopher may be needed at
- some point. If you have a gopher client on your system you may want
- to go directly to a specific Gopher server.
-
- You use the word "gopher," then the remote machine address to get
- directly into a Gopher server. You will then receive a menu from
- the remote server. You do need a gopher client and a TCP/IP connection
- in order for this to work.
-
- Here are addresses of several remote machines:
-
- Name=Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
- Type=0
- Port=70
- Path=0/Welcome
- Host=vixen.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- (I'll use the above Gopher in my examples.)
-
- Name=University of Minnesota Gopher Server, Home of the Gopher
- Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu
-
- Name=InterNIC-- Internet's new $12 million Network Information
- Center
- Host=gopher.ds.internic.net
-
- Name=Merit -- Merit/NSFNET Information Services (Internet Info)
- Host=nic.merit.edu
-
- Name=UB Wings - State Uninversity of New York at Buffalo CWIS
- Host=wings.buffalo.edu
-
- Name=University of Michigan GOpherBLUE Service
- Host=gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu
-
- Name=University of North Texas
- Host=gopher.unt.edu
-
- Name=Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server
- Host=info.hed.apple.com
-
- Name=CERFnet Network Information Services
- Host=gopher.cerf.net
-
- Name=CNUCE Institute - National Research Council of Italy, Pisa,
- Host=gopher.cnuce.cnr.it
-
- Name=Australian National University
- Host=info.anu.edu.au
-
- Name=Ben Gurion University Gopher (Israel)
- Host=gopher.bgu.ac.il
-
- Name=CSCS - Swiss Scientific Computing Center, (CH)
- Host=pobox.cscs.ch
-
- Name=DENet Danish Academic Network, (DK)
- Host=gopher.denet.dk
-
- Name=EUnet in Germany, (DE)
- Host=ftp.Germany.eu.net
-
- If you don't have a Gopher client installed on your local machine,
- you can use telnet to access a Gopher client. Depending on your
- operating system, you can use the word "telnet" and a remote
- machine address to access Gopher logging in as "gopher", in most
- cases. Your telnet may work differently. You may telnet from a
- menu system or from an icon depending on your system.
- Here are some publicly accessible telnet gopher sites.
-
- Hostname IP# Login Area
- ------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
- consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America
- gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America
- panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America
- gopher.sunet.se 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe
- info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia
- gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden
- tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America
- ecnet.ec 157.100.45.2 gopher Ecuador
-
- tn3270 Public Logins:
-
- Hostname IP# Login Area
- ------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
- pubinfo.ais.umn.edu 128.101.109.1 -none- North America
-
-
- It is recommended that you run gopher from a Gopher client which is
- free over the Internet. The client/server based Gopher program is
- more efficient and saves network resources compared to telneting
- to a site. We will talk about getting and installing a client
- later in the Course.
-
- There are other ways to access Gopher. For example, the World Wide
- Web (WWW) will give you access to Gopherspace.
-
- If you have a client installed it is most likely pointed at a
- preferred gopher server for your institution. The first method of
- typing "gopher" will get you there in the easiest way possible.
-
-
-
- Richard J. Smith
- smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
- The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
-
-
- Jim Gerland
- gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
-