A Beginner's Guide to the Internet/INTERNET.ISO/text/gopher/gophern/gophern.16

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Date:         Mon, 8 Nov 1993 14:47:28 EST
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From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject:      #16 .gopherc and More Bookmarks
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To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <[e-mail]>
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NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'

Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland

.GOPHERRC AND MORE BOOKMARKS

About as technical as I'll get on Gopher will be to take a look at
the .gopherrc file.  The .gopherrc file is a hidden file that
contains information about your Gopher client.  The particular
information I'm concerned about in this session is the bookmark
information in the .gopherrc file.

On my UNIX machine I can see my .gopherrc file by using "ls" to
list the file and add the "-a" and "-l" flags to list the hidden
files in a long version. I'll pipe it through a more command.

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icarus.lis[3] % ls -al |more
total 2447
drwx--S--- 14 rjs          4096 Nov  8 08:35 .
drwxr-xr-x973 root        15872 Oct 28 17:46 ..
-rw-------  1 rjs           838 Nov  5 07:31 .Xauthority
-rw-------  1 rjs            69 Jun  9  1991 .Xdefaults
-rw-------  1 rjs           615 Oct 14 09:48 .addressbook
-rw-r--r--  1 rjs           622 May 21  1991 .cshrc
-rw-------  1 rjs           499 Aug 30 13:30 .desksetdefaults
drwx------  2 rjs           512 Sep 19 12:33 .elm
-rw-------  1 rjs           124 Jun  9  1991 .filemgrrc
-rw-------  1 rjs          1402 Nov  6 10:17 .gopherrc
-rw-------  1 rjs          1303 Nov  6 09:12 .gopherrc~
-rwx------  1 rjs           162 Jul  1 12:35 .login
-rw-r--r--  1 rjs             6 Mar  7  1991 .logout
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rjs           820 Sep 19 12:38 .mailrc
-rw-------  1 rjs          4322 Aug 30 14:42 .mosaic-global-history

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There are two .gopherrc files listed.  One is a backup.  I'll read
the .gopherrc file by using the more command.

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icarus.lis[2] % more .gopherrc
Pagercmd: less
Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac
Telnetcmd: telnet
Mailcmd: mail
Playcmd: play -v 40 -
TN3270cmd: tn3270
MIMEcmd: metamail -P
Imagecmd: display
bookmarks:
#
Type=1

Name=Library administration
Path=1/.ads/.ads-by-group/.admin/.libraries
Host=chronicle.merit.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Library science
Path=1/.ads/.ads-by-group/.faculty/.professional/.library
Host=chronicle.merit.edu
Port=70                                                   #


--More--(28%)

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Besides some information on my Gopher client there is information
about the bookmarks I've created.  The Type, Name, Path, Host and
Port are all information on a distant Gopher much of which is
needed to connect to a distant Gopher. This file is a text file so
I can go into it with a text editor or wordprocessor and rearrange
the order of my bookmark.

We cannot have more than one bookmark.  However, we can rename the
.gopherrc file, then create a new .gopherrc file and bookmark when
we next enter Gopher.  I can rename .gopherrc files to gopher1,
gopher2, gopher3, gophern so that I have an unlimited number of
gopher files.  Then when I want to use a particular gopher file
I'll replace the .gopherrc with that file.

This past summer I gave an assignment to my class at the University
of Pittsburgh's School of Library and Information Science to create
bookmarks in subject areas of their choosing.  I thought you might
get an idea from some of the finished bookmarks on how you might
use Gopher to help in your information navigating. The only
aberration in these bookmarks is that I asked the student to try to
give a variety of Gopher items in their Gopher demonstration.


REFERENCE TOOLS

Lora-Lynn Rice decided to create a personal reference bookmark.
She decided that all good reference sources should have a
dictionary and Thesauri as well as several indexing and abstracting
sources.  Ready references such as Cia World Fact Book are
included, and she also includes electronic journals and Gopher
searching using Veronica.  Here is Lora-lynn's Gopher screen with
the Gopher bookmark technical information.

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                    Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11



                                   Bookmarks



 -->  1.  Search titles in Gopherspace using Veronica/
      2.  Discipline specific references/
      3.  Library of Congress Gopher/
      4.  Electronic journal collection from CICnet/
      5.  Webster's Dictionary (login as "webster") <TEL>
      6.  Roget's Thesaurus (Published in 1911)/
      7.  Online Dictionary of Computing/
      8.  Search for Jargon <?>
      9.  Acronym dictionary (keyword search) <?>
      10. AskERIC /
      11. CARL System (Colorado Alliance Research Libraries) <TEL>
      12. All WAIS indexes/
      13. U.S. Telephone Area Codes/
      14. Search Geographic Name Server by City or ZIP code <?>
      15. US Government Agency Phone Directories/
      16. Congressional Directories/
      17. Today's Events in History.
      18. CIA World Fact Book 1991/



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>From [e-mail] Mon Nov  8 09:26:24 1993
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:52:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lora-Lynn Rice <[e-mail]>
To: richard smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: my bookmark


#Lora-Lynn Rice REFERENCE TOOLS BOOKMARK
#Last Altered:August 11, 1993
#[e-mail]
Pagercmd: less
Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac
Telnetcmd: telnet
Mailcmd: mail
Playcmd: /usr/local/bin/play
TN3270cmd: tn3270
MIMEcmd: metamail -P
Imagecmd: display
bookmarks:
#
Type=1
Name=Search titles in Gopherspace using Veronica
Path=1/veronica
Host=veronica.scs.unr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Discipline specific references
Path=1/.libraries/.subject
Host=gopher.Princeton.EDU
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Library of Congress Gopher
Path=
Host=marvel.loc.gov
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Electronic journal collection from CICnet
Path=1/e-serials
Host=gopher.cic.net
Port=70
#
Type=8
Name=Webster's Dictionary (login as "webster")
Path=
Host=CHEM.UCSD.EDU
Port=23
#
Type=1
Name=Roget's Thesaurus (Published in 1911)
Path=1/Gutenberg/roget
Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Online Dictionary of Computing
Path=
Host=wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk
Port=70
#
Type=7
Name=Search for Jargon
Path=waissrc:/.wais/jargon.src
Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu
Port=70
#
Type=7
Name=Acronym dictionary (keyword search)
Path=7/miscellany/acronyms/.index/index
Host=info.mcc.ac.uk
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=AskERIC
Path=
Host=ericir.syr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=8
Name=CARL System (Colorado Alliance Research Libraries)
Path=choose option 3; use //EXIT to quit
Host=pac.carl.org
Port=0
#
Type=1
Name=All WAIS indexes
Path=1 /WAISes/Everything
Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=U.S. Telephone Area Codes
Path=areacode
Host=ashpool.micro.umn.edu
Port=4324
#
Type=7
Name=Search Geographic Name Server by City or ZIP code
Path=geo search
Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.EDU
Port=4324
#
Type=1
Name=US Government Agency Phone Directories
Path=1/Government Information/USA/phone
Host=econ.tucson.az.us
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Congressional Directories
Path=1/congress/directory
Host=rs5.loc.gov
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Today's Events in History
Path=0/today
Host=uts.mcc.ac.uk
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=CIA World Fact Book 1991
Path=1/Gutenberg/factbook
Host=joeboy.micro.umn.edu
Port=70
#Created by Lora-Lynn Rice [e-mail]


Lora-Lynn Rice
[e-mail]
University of Pittsburgh-SLIS
I may not know all the answers, but I know where to find them. ;)

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Kelly Hughbanks, Carole Lombardo, Polly Ostertrico, and Libreta
Schiappa combined on a Wildlife and Environmental Concerns
bookmark. Theirs includes a picture Gopher item and a directory
containing sound files.  Your machine will have to be able to use
these files if you want to hear the calling of the whales or see
the graphic photos of endangered species.

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                    Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11


Bookmarks
                                                             -->
1.  Search gopherspace using veronica at University of Pisa:
endangere../
2.  Australian Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)/
3.  Ecology and Evolution/
4.  habitat_loss_consequences.
5.  Rare, vulnerable and endangered species and Land Use <Picture>
6.  Extinct Is Forever - NWF Endangered Species Newsletter/
7.  National Wildlife Federation/
8.  Environment and Ecology/
9.  environment-newsgroups: Archive of a number of environment-
rela.. <?>
10. Discipline-specific material/
11. whales/
12. Title  : FEATURE STORY: TALES FROM THE GRAVE-- WHALE BONES
SUPPORT...
13. Title  : NSF FUNDS RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF
HURRICAN...


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>From [e-mail] Mon Nov  8 09:26:43 1993
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Libreta Schiappa <[e-mail]>
To: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Cc: Libreta Schiappa <[e-mail]>
Subject: gopher-environmental concerns

Pagercmd: less
Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac
Telnetcmd: telnet
Mailcmd: mail
Playcmd: play -v 40 -
TN3270cmd: tn3270
MIMEcmd: metamail -P
Imagecmd: display
bookmarks:
#
Type=1
Name=Search gopherspace using veronica at University of Pisa:
endangered species Path= endangered species
Host=gopher.psi.com
Port=2347
#
Type=1
Name=Australian Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
Path=
Host=155.187.10.12
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Ecology and Evolution
Path=
Host=kaos.erin.gov.au
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=habitat_loss_consequences
Path=0/eforum/jour_undergrad_research/planet_life/habitat_loss_co
nsequences Host=csf.Colorado.EDU
Port=70
#
Type=I
Name=Rare, vulnerable and endangered species and Land Use
Path=9/overview/images/rare.rs
Host=kaos.erin.gov.au
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Extinct Is Forever - NWF Endangered Species Newsletter
Path=1/information/natint/nwfstuff/newsletter
Host=ecosys.drdr.Virginia.EDU
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=National Wildlife Federation
Path=1/information/natint/nwfstuff
Host=ecosys.drdr.Virginia.EDU
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Environment and Ecology
Path=1/Subject/Environment
Host=chico.rice.edu
Port=70
#
Type=7
Name=environment-newsgroups: Archive of a number of environment-
related e-conferences
Path=waissrc:/allWAIS/experiment/all/environment-newsgroups
Host=munin.ub2.lu.se
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=Discipline-specific material
Path=1/library/disciplines
Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=whales
Path=1/../.pub/multimedia/sun-sounds/whales
Host=sunsite.unc.edu
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Title  : FEATURE STORY: TALES FROM THE GRAVE-- WHALE BONES
SUPPORT DEEP-SEA Path=R0-6478-/.index/ftp/NSF/press/pr9299
Host=stis.nsf.gov
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Title  : NSF FUNDS RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF
HURRICANE ANDREW Path=R0-6774-/.index/ftp/NSF/press/pr936
Host=stis.nsf.gov
Port=70

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Here is a musical information Gopher bookmark from Ricky Prado.

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>From [e-mail] Mon Nov  8 09:21:46 1993
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 13:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ricky Prado <[e-mail]>
To: richard smith <[e-mail]>

                            Bookmarks

1. Lute files
2. lute.archives
3. Tablature-Chords for Guitar
4. guitar
5. Ragtime guitar books
6. Ragtime for fingerstyle guitar
     The lute files and lute archives comes from a server in
Dartmouth who is involved with teaching lute. The lute files
contains much dialog on problems with the accurate performance of
music on the lute while the lute.archives has several tablatures of
pieces that haven't been in print.      The rest of the files
pertain to popular aspects of the guitar. Tablature-Chords for
Guitar is an encyclopedia of different chord forms found on the
instrument, which would be of great use to a beginner. The two
bookmarks dealing with Ragtime guitar did not have anything in them
but a note saying that some tablatures would be included soon.  My
favourite bookmark is the one simply marked "guitar". It has
several menus after this one and contains many songs by recent
recording artists in tablature form. It will be invaluable to me as
a teacher because transcription is a lengthy process. Now if a
student tells me he wants to learn "Ten Years Gone" by Led
Zeppelin, all I have to do is pull up the guitar menu, look under
Led Zeppelin and see if the song has already been transcribed. If
it has (and it has), print it. I have some tunes that I have
transcribed that I will post as soon as I have time. Ricky Prado.
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The final example will be by Clete Schirra, Jon Theisen, Alison
Diraly and Rebecca Wilkins.  A Children's Literature and Resource
for Teaching K-12 Kids was the subject of their bookmark.

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                    Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11

                                   Bookmarks

 -->  1.  About the Children's Literature Center.
      2.  AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/
      3.  KIDSPHERE-List/
      4.  Selected American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings
(1991).
      5.       Children's Books with Blind or Visually Impaired
Characters.
      6.       Picture Books for Middle Schoolers.
      7.  Search All Literature Reviews <?>
      8.  Introduction to KIDLINK for Educators.
      9.   K-12 Networking/
      10. Children's Literature: A Library Timesaver.

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>From [e-mail] Mon Nov  8 09:26:58 1993
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:51:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Theisen <[e-mail]>
To: richard smith <[e-mail]>

Pagercmd: less
Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac
Telnetcmd: telnet
Mailcmd: mail
Playcmd: /usr/local/bin/play
TN3270cmd: tn3270
MIMEcmd: metamail -P
Imagecmd: display
bookmarks:
#
Type=0
Name=About the Children's Literature Center
Path=0/Library.of.Congress/about.LC/reading.rooms/Childrens.lit
Host=seq1.loc.gov
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)
Path=
Host=ericir.syr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name=KIDSPHERE-List
Path=1/Listservs/KIDSPHERE-List
Host=ericir.syr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Selected American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings (1991)
Path=ftp:seq1.loc.gov@/pub/Library.of.Congress/research.guides/am
er.folklife.ctr/Selected.recordings.91 Host=rs5.loc.gov
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=     Children's Books with Blind or Visually Impaired
Characters Path=R435488-436735-/Listservs/LM_NET/6-March_93
Host=ericir.syr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=     Picture Books for Middle Schoolers
Path=R683708-687413-/Listservs/LM_NET/8-May_93
Host=ericir.syr.edu
Port=70
#
Type=7
Name=Search All Literature Reviews
Path=7/Literature
Host=tinman.mes.umn.edu
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Introduction to KIDLINK for Educators
Path=0/classrooms/kidlink-edu-info
Host=kids.duq.edu
Port=70
#
Type=1
Name= K-12 Networking
Path=1F:/SUBJECT/EDUC/K12
Host=gopher.dana.edu
Port=70
#
Type=0
Name=Children's Literature: A Library Timesaver
Path=0/library/humanities/children.bib
Host=cwis.sfu.ca
Port=70

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So the variety of Gopher bookmarks is limited only by the
individual's selection of information needed to be retrieved from
this network of networks called the Internet.

Explore and create your own information research gatherer by
creating a unique bookmark.


Richard J. Smith
[e-mail]
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh


Jim Gerland
[e-mail]
State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
Manager, Network User Support Services