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- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 08:10:19 EDT
- Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Sender: 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: #7 A CMS Gopher Client - Help file
- To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Status: RO
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- GOPHER HELP
-
- At my System prompt I type the word "gopher gopher.uiuc.edu" and retrieve the
- following menu:
-
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- Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.2 gopher.uiuc.edu
- 1/22 More
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- <menu> Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
- <menu> Campus Announcements (last updated 8/18/93)
- <menu> What's New?(last update: 8/17/93)
- <menu> Information about Gopher
- <search> Keyword Search of Gopher Menus
- <menu> Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Information
- <menu> Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information
- <menu> Computer Documentation, Software, and Information
- <menu> Libraries and Reference Information
- <menu> Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather
- <menu> Other Gopher and Information Servers
- <menu> Phone Books (ph)
- <menu> Internet File Server (ftp) Sites
- <menu> SPECIAL: FLOOD RELIEF INFORMATION (ILLINOIS CES)
- <document> IMPORTANT!NEW TERMINAL SERVER CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT AUGUST
-
- 1= Help 2= Open 3= Return 4= Print 5= Save/Rcv 6= Find
- 7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Bookmark 10= Booklist 11= 12= Quit
- ********
-
- The bottom of the Gopher menu has options from which you can choose. Help
- can be selected by pressing the PF1 key from most points in Gopher. Here is the
- help screen:
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- CMS Gopher - Viewing Directories
-
- You are presented with a menu of items. These may be files, directories
- of files, links to other Gopher servers, or other special functions.
- To "open" an item, place your cursor on or under the item then press <ENTER>.
-
- Before each item is symbolic text explaining what type of item it is:
-
- <document> (nothing), this item is a plain-text file
- <menu> this item leads to another directory or Gopher
- <phonebk> this item leads to a CSO/qi Phonebook search
- <search> this item leads to a keyword search
- <telnet> this item represents a telnet session
- <picture> this item is a graphic
- (requires a grphics terminal to view)
- <binary> this item is a "binary" file
- (not interesting to view, but downloadable)
-
- Function keys active are:
-
- ENTER select an item
- PF1 help (gives you this screen)
- PF2 select an item (same as ENTER)
- PF3 go back to previous menu (if any)
- PF6 find particular string within the menu
- PF7 Scroll UP in the menu
- PF8 Scroll DOWN in the menu
- PF9 set a BOOKMARK on this panel
- (or delete the BOOKMARK at the cursor
- if you're viewing your bookmark list)
- PF10 go to the BOOKMARK list/select panel
- PF12 quit completely
-
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-
- This quick Gopher on-line help comes in handy when you forget how to move
- around "Gopherspace". There are a few other things to note in help.
- Information on how to create a bookmark is useful and we'll be creating
- bookmarks later in this course. Also, information on how to quit and how to
- search for an item is given.
-
- This help screen goes beyond a computer one screen of information. When
- that happens you can use the PF8 key to get the next screen of information.
- When you get to the end of the document you must press the PF3 key to quit
- the HELP utility and return to Gopher.
-
-
- 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
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