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- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 19:25:02 EDT
- Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
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- From: Richard Smith <smithr@clp2.clpgh.org>
- Subject: #4 Gopher Items
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-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- GOPHER ITEMS.
-
- At my system prompt I type the word "gopher" and retrieve the
- following menu:
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Root gopher server: gopher.uiuc.edu
-
-
- -->1.Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Gopher.
- 2.Campus Announcements (last updated 8/18/93)/
- 3.What's New?(last update: 8/17/93)/
- 4.Information about Gopher/
- 5.Keyword Search of Gopher Menus <?>
- 6.Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Information/
- 7.Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information/
- 8.Computer Documentation, Software, and Information/
- 9.Libraries and Reference Information/
- 10. Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather/
- 11. Other Gopher and Information Servers/
- 12. Phone Books (ph)/
- 13. Internet File Server (ftp) Sites/
- 14. SPECIAL: FLOOD RELIEF INFORMATION (ILLINOIS CES)/
- 15. IMPORTANT!NEW TERMINAL SERVER CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT AUGUST.
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- My systems administrator has my Gopher client pointed to the
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's server. I've
- retrieved a menu that has 15 items. Most of the fifteen items
- are directories designated by the forward slash "/" that is at the
- end of the line. This means if I select one of those items I
- would get another menu in return.
-
- Not all the items are directories. Number one and fifteen are text files because
- they end with a period "." while number five is a searchable index, identified
- by the <?>, that, if selected, would ask for a keyword to find information I'm
- interested in obtaining. Gopher can find other types of files and information
- out on the Internet. Here is a list of Gopher "items" that can be obtained:
-
- 0 Item is a file
- 1 Item is a directory
- 2 Item is a CSO (qi) phone-book server
- 3 Error
- 4 Item is a BinHexed Macintosh file.
- 5 Item is DOS binary archive of some sort.
- 6 Item is a UNIX uuencoded file.
- 7 Item is an Index-Search server.
- 8 Item points to a text-based telnet session.
- 9 Item is a binary file! Client must read until the
- connection closes. Beware.
- T TN3270 connection.
-
- Experimental IDs.
-
- s Sound type. Data stream is a mulaw sound.
- g GIF type.
- M MIME type. Item contains MIME data.
- h html type.
- I Image type.
- i "inline" text type (used by panda).
-
- The usefulness of a retrieved item will depend on whether your machine and syste
- m
- can make use of a particular item. For example GIF, sound, binary files and
- others need special equipment or software in order to utilize the information.
- The Internet has all types of information available and new things are popping
- up all the time. We will see later that specific items can be specified when we
- search "Gopherspace."
-
-
- 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
- Manager, Network User Support Services
-
-