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- GopherPup is an Internet information client program, usable
- on the common computer systems including Macintosh, Motif/X-
- Windows and MS-Windows[+]. It provides an easy to use,
- Macintosh Finder-like link to the range of Internet Gopher
- services.
-
- This program supports Gopher+ methods, including ASK forms
- that make it possible to provide client-server dialogs for
- various information analyses, and supports multiple view
- formats, so that you can fetch versions of documents that
- most suit your computer system.
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- GopherPup is available at
- ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/gopher/gopherpup.
-
- GopherPup is based directly on my earlier GopherApp program
- for Macintosh computers. It includes, or will include, the
- same feature set and general user interface.
-
- It is built on top of a cross-platform toolkit, written in
- ANSI C, from the National Center for Biotechnology
- Information (NCBI), especially Jonathan Kans' Vibrant user-
- interface toolkit, which works on Macintosh, MS-Windows and
- X/Motif (Unix and VMS) systems.
-
- On the NCBI toolkit I built a C++ application framework that
- is patterned after the MacApp framework from Apple Computer.
- This application framework, called Don's Class Application
- Library (DCLAP), will be available freely to the public, as
- is NCBI's toolkit, for those wishing to use it for
- development of platform independent applications. The home
- archive location for DCLAP is {ftp,gopher} to
- ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/dclap.
-
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- This initial release of GopherPup lacks several important
- features, and also it includes many bugs, making it likely
- to crash, and not yet suitable for extensive use.
-
- -- Macintosh requirements: requires MacTCP from Apple
- Computer. The current release may not work at all on older
- macs (SE).
-
- -- MS-Windows requirements: not available yet.
-
- -- X/Motif requirements: the author will only be able to
- supply binaries for a limited number of Unix OS flavors.
- These are
- SunOS-Sparc-Motif, now available, your system will need
- to supply Motif runtime shared libraries, and
- SGI-Irix-MIPS-Motif, not yet ready.
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- Source code will eventually be available to those who wish
- to compile on their own systems.
-
- Comments, bug reports and suggestions for new features may
- be addressed via e-mail to GopherPup@Bio.Indiana.Edu
-
- -- Don Gilbert
-
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- [+] 25 jan 94: still pending development for MSWindows. If
- anyone has an MS Windows computer to loan for this, please
- let me know.
-
- History
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- 25 Jan 94, version -1 of GopherPup works on Mac and Sun-
- Sparc-Motif, but still incomplete compared to GopherApp.
- 9 Nov 93, v 2.1bx of GopherApp.
- 25 Mar 92, v1.0 of GopherApp released to public.
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