HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: UNIX gopher with shell and print/save disabled
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:31:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: pith.1dc3roINNqqh
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: duff.uoregon.edu

bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
>I overlooked the obvious: the man page.  gopher -s starts gopher in
>"secure mode" such that print and save are disabled.

>SHELL=/dev/null seems to prevent shell escapes in "more" as well (as

When running a "secure" gopher, setting SHELL=/dev/null and using -s
are not enough.  For example, one can use more, run vi with the "v"
command, change one's shell using :set shell=/bin/csh, etc.  For a
reasonably secure gopher, get the stripped down more and telnet programs
from boombox, and run gopher with -s, and with the following environment
variables:
	PAGER pointing to the minimalist more
	GOPHER_MIME=$PAGER
	GOPHER_PLAY and GOPHER_IMAGE pointing someplace innocuous
	GOPHER_TELNET and GOPHER_TN3270 pointing at the restricted telnet
	
I also recommend disabling GOPHER_MAIL to avoid potential problems if "~"
occurs at the beginning of a line in a text file on a gopher server.  If
you really want to allow mail from your secure gopher, point GOPHER_MAIL
at a shell script such as:
    #!/bin/sh
    (	echo Subject: Email from gopher gateway: "$2"
	echo To: "$3"
	echo ""
	cat - ) | exec /usr/ucb/Mail -r ${USER-"gopher-gw"} "$3"


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From: thor@teetot.acusd.edu (Mr. Nelson Thor Brickman)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: g2archie
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:26:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: teetot.1992Nov9.182617.26565
Distribution: usa
Organization: usd

Hi folks,

  I have all of the go4gw stuff working but g2archie.  It gives me the
exact and substring choices, but returns 'Nothing available' no matter
what I do.

  Any suggestions?

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers)
Subject: gopher/wais question
Organization: Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:27:00 GMT

I finally got around to messing with the gopher/wais interface, and can't
get it to work. After compiling gopherd (1.0[23]) with WAIS support, I get
the following message when trying to connect to a database:

telnet slapshot 70
waissrc:/Wais/whois.src stanford
Connect to socket did not work (2): Connection refused
0Server error: Error openning connection to wais.nic.ddn.mil via service 210.  error.host       1
.

I can telnet to that host and port and connect, so thats not the problem.

I've also tried:

waissearch -h wais.nic.ddn.mil -p 210 -d whois stanford

And that worked fine. 

thanks, Roland



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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: yonsook@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Yonsook Enloe;NSIUSO)
Subject: Re: compiling waisgopher.c
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:42:59 GMT

drb@dionysus.mr.ams.org (Drew Burton) writes:



>	I have a problem in building the gopher server to support wais
>searching.  I have built the gopher server without wais with no problem and
>I have the wais tools working.

>	My environment is DECstation 5000, Ultrix 4.2, gopher1.03, wais-8-b5. 
>	
>	I have created the links from the wais ir and ui directories.
>Everything compiles until I get to waisgopher.c

>	Any ideas?
>.....
>make server
>Making server
>Making server with WAIS searching
>cc -O -DDATA_DIRECTORY=\"/home/mudhoney/gopher-data\"  -DDOMAIN_NAME=\".micro.umn.edu\"  -DGOPHER_PORT=70  -DWAISSEARCH    -I../object -I.. -I../ir -I../ui -c waisgopher.c
>cpp: warning /usr/include/sys/param.h:389: MIN redefined
>cpp: warning /usr/include/sys/param.h:390: MAX redefined
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/sys/socket.h, line 131: redeclaration of linger
>      struct	linger {
>      -----------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/sys/socket.h, line 172: redeclaration of sockaddr
>      struct sockaddr {
>      ----------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/sys/socket.h, line 181: redeclaration of sockproto
>      struct sockproto {
>      -----------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/sys/socket.h, line 221: redeclaration of msghdr
>      struct msghdr {
>      --------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/netdb.h, line 17: redeclaration of hostent
>      struct	hostent {
>      ------------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/netdb.h, line 30: redeclaration of netent
>      struct	netent {
>      -----------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/netdb.h, line 37: redeclaration of servent
>      struct	servent {
>      ------------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/netdb.h, line 44: redeclaration of protoent
>      struct	protoent {
>      -------------------^
>ccom: Error: /usr/include/netdb.h, line 50: redeclaration of rpcent
>      struct rpcent {
>      --------------^
>*** Error code 1

>Stop.
>*** Error code 1

>Stop.


I had the same problem.  Try the gopher1.1b1 (the beta version of 1.1 now
available at boombox).  The wais gateway compiles cleanly and the make
files all work for Ultrix.

Yonsook
yonsook@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: marmillod@elpp1.epfl.ch (Philippe Marmillod EPFL - CRPP 1015 Lausanne CH)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Xgopher port for VMS ?
Keywords: xgopher VMS
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:30:51 GMT
Reply-To: marmillod@elpp1.epfl.ch
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne



  Has anyone else already gotten xgopher (or an equivalent) working under
 VMS that could email me diffs or point me towards an ftp site ??

Thanks,
	Philippe Marmillod
	marmillod@elpp1.epfl.ch
	 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Suisse
From: mehta@dcdlaa (Mehta Darshan)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Xgopher help?
Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:01:17 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
NNTP-Posting-Host: dcdlaa.fnal.gov
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

[ Article crossposted from alt.gopher ]
[ Author was Mehta Darshan ]
[ Posted on 13 Nov 1992 16:57:03 GMT ]

I have successfully been able to run Xgopher on an SGI machine.  However, 
there is still one problem that exists.  Whenever I try to access the help menu on Xgopher, I am not able to run it.  Does someone have an hints/suggestion or 
an answer to this problem?

If so, please write to me at:

darshan@imsa.edu

Thanks
 
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: SCease@worldbank.org (sean cease)
Subject: Job description needed
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.gopher
Organization: worldbank.org
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:54:49 GMT

I'm looking for some example job description for Gopher adminstrators,
could someone send me an example,
salaries range would be helpful. 

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: "Gopherwalk (more precise description)", anyone?
From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:19:06 GMT
Reply-To: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Organization: EMBnet Switzerland [BASEL]   

In article <BxGoHB.35K@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ullmer@uiuc.edu (Brygg Ullmer) writes:
|> doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:
|> 
|> >I need a tool which takes a list of adresses and walks down their trees 
|> >in GOPHER. Is such a tool or a silmilar software existent, please let
|> >me know. 
|> 
|> Can you provide a bit more detail about your needs?  I'm completing the
|> alpha version of an extension to the Unix Gopher client which might well
|> satisfy your problem, or at least provide a solution with minor 
|> modifications, but I can't be sure from the information you've
|> provided.
|> 
|> Brygg Ullmer

The two main problems in gopher are  
	(1) to have dangling links, because of changes at remote servers 
	(2) some interesting menu items are very deep in the hierarchy. 

What I had in mind was a tool which does a connection to a gopher, filters
all entries with /, and reconnects to these. Given a max level depth of 6, 
for example, this would get us a text file with all menu item descriptions,
ports, and hosts to connect to. That would then need to be packed into a 
batch procedure, and installed on a central gopher for WAIS searching. However,
the top of desire were to have the selected menu items presented as gopher
menu so that, upon searching shakespeare, all gophers with the word 
shakespeare pop up as links in a gopher menu. 

sounds weired? Sorry. I will be able to explain it in an example. 
Given the need that you want to know something, and you hate to walk through
gopherspace. You then woule approach servers you feel to be of litereature
interest, and search all the trees there. You don't really bother on all the 
others, and finally give up because  the item you were looking for is not 
there. It might well be that it was there, but you failed to connect to the 
correct gopher server. 

Still weired? Third attempt. Archie does a similar things for FTP, but in a 
discontinous process. You connect to archie, and get a menu choice, you will 
take your pick. Now as gopher is THE menu making tool, why not have a similar 
stuff for gopher? To get less overhead, such a tool could be run locally
and stored in a file for being called easily rather than polling the 
hierarcchy in detail. 

Regards 
Reinhard 

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: kanel@gemini.ldc.lu.se
Subject: Re: gopher/wais question
Reply-To: kanel@gemini.ldc.lu.se
Organization: Lund University Sweden
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:36:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.202700.16802@leland.Stanford.EDU>, schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers) writes:
>I finally got around to messing with the gopher/wais interface, and can't
>get it to work. After compiling gopherd (1.0[23]) with WAIS support, I get
>the following message when trying to connect to a database:
>
>telnet slapshot 70
>waissrc:/Wais/whois.src stanford
>Connect to socket did not work (2): Connection refused
>0Server error: Error openning connection to wais.nic.ddn.mil via service 210.  error.host       1
>..
>
>I can telnet to that host and port and connect, so thats not the problem.
>
>I've also tried:
>
>waissearch -h wais.nic.ddn.mil -p 210 -d whois stanford
>
>And that worked fine. 
>
>thanks, Roland
>
>
>
>-- 
>Roland J. Schemers III              |            Networking Systems
>Systems Programmer                  |            168 Pine Hall   (415)-723-6740
>Distributed Computing Group         |            Stanford, CA 94305-4122
>Stanford University                 |            schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU

Hi! Sorry to bother you! My very first visit to news, just testing!
Have a nice day!




Ingvar


Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: sf@cc.ic.ac.uk (Susan Feng)
Subject: Problems with go500
Originator: sf@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College Computer Centre
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 16:26:51 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to setup go500, gopher x.500 server.
The server starts  ok, but when gppher client 
connects to it, it always returns "Nothing available". 

When compling, I made the following change to the mail.c file

#define DAPUSER                 "c=GB@o=Imperial College@cn=icapp"
#define DEFAULT_BASE            "c=GB@o=Imperial College"
#define DEFAULT_DIXIEHOST       "dir.ic.ac.uk"

Aother dixie program, dixie fingerd works fine, which means DSA
machine "dir.ic.ac.uk" is up and working.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Susan
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan Mandell)
Subject: Anyone running shell  scripts on HPs?
Organization: Computer Services, Notre Dame, In
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:47:07 GMT

Has anyone figured out how to get shell scripts running under hpux?
I would be gratefull for any tips.
Dan

Dan Mandell (mandell@dmandell@saintmarys.edu)
Saint Mary's College, Computer Services 
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556  -  Phone: (219) 284-4610

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Subject: Re: Binaries and subscribing
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:04:16 GMT

In <1992Nov9.150548.23563@news.duc.auburn.edu> Wade Williams <williw1@mail.auburn.edu> writes:

>Two questions:

>1)  I've noticed that the DOS and XWindows clients do not recognize 
>binaries files like the Macintosh gopher client will.  I read a message 
>explaining the reasons for this, but surely it's a problem that needs 
>fixing.  How close is it to being fixed (or is it already?).

Xgopher 1.2 is in development.  Binary should be in that release.
Binary will also be in the next PC gopher client.

>2)  What's the address to subscribe to the gopher mailing list so I won't 
>have to read comp.infosystems.gopher?

gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: dan@engr.latech.edu (Daniel Len Schales)
Subject: Re: Help with execing shell scripts
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:36:42 GMT

Larry Broda (lbroda@s.psych.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: brockie@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Roger Brockie) writes:
: 
: 
: >Tonight I was playing around with executing a shell script via gopher.
: >But I can't get any output displayed.  I know the scripts being run,
: >I've traced the code through printfile to the writestring back to the
: >client and the data is getting through.  But the client always comes
: >back with nothing happened.
: 
: >I'm using a DECsystem (Ultrix v4.2a) gopher 1.1abeta (but 1.03 gives the same
: >result) with the 1.1abeta client, and a VMS client (0.6 I think).
: 
: >Has anyone any ideas ?
: 
: >Roger
: >-- 
: You're doing better than me... I can't get it to execute the script at
: all... what is the secret?
: 
: I'm coming from a SunOS 4.1.2 environment so maybe this advice is not
: valid, but it might be that Gopher is trapping the stdout from your
: script.  IN that case, you could try redirecting your output directly to
: the tty (it would be /dev/tty under SunOS).
: 

If you are running chroot() you would have to have a /dev/tty defined,

anyway here are some tips on doing exec's with chroot() in effect:

First try reading the man page for ftpd where it discusses setting
up an anonymous ftp server, you can pretty much do the same thing
for gopher (with obvious exceptions, like the pub directory and etc).

Make sure whatever shell you have is inside the gopher home at whatever
point your script expects to find it plus any other commands you make
calls to.

Test out the script using:

chroot gopher-root script args

This will help point out any errors.

Keep in mind there are 2 types of execs in gopher, one where
you simply point gopher at it and it tuns it, and the second
with type exec. The first cannot be given any arguments (although)
if the type is 7 the input will be passed to it. With type exec
the arguments are placed between colons (see examples). Keep
in mind that with the exec type, all characters after the last
colon are exec'ed so make sure there are no spaces (and no args).

Some sample link files (not that the old shell types don't need
Link files, just put them in the gopherspace, these are used
to prompt for information)

exec /bin/gonntp with args -g misc (i.e. /bin/gonntp -g misc)

Name=misc
Type=1
Port=70
Path=exec:-g misc:/bin/gonntp
Host=aurora.latech.edu

Prompt for input as args to script:

Name=Goto News Group
Type=7
Port=70
Path=7/bin/gonntp.grp
Host=aurora.latech.edu


Hope this helps

The main thing is to make sure everything is in the gopherdir,
you may want to try running gopherd non-chroot() to test things
out. But it does work, I have dozens and dozens of shell links
in my gopherspace.

Danny
From: catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: gnntp--a simple Gopher NNTP gateway
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:17:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
In-reply-to: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com's message of 11 Nov 92 21:31:00 GMT

In article <19921111163128SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:

   Also, can the individual who disliked Trumpet explain why?
   Everyone else on the net seems to like it.  I don't know,
   because I haven't seen it.

I'm not the original individual, but I have some qualms about Trumpet also.
It loses articles, sporadically, seemingly based on the (out of order)
sequence in which you pick and choose articles to read.  I was able to
duplicate the problem somewhat, but never enough to pin it down exactly.
Also, Trumpet does not do thread sorting, rather it just sorts header lines
and groups them with their Re:'s, which is not the same thing.  I wish
GNUS ran on demacs, it is the news reader I like best (I used rn for years,
and tried trn, tin, snuz, newsnuz, Trumpet, ANU News, and probably some
others I've forgotten).


- Tony
  catone@dmark.wharton.upenn.edu

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: grady@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Grady)
Subject: Index searching/NEXT
Summary: Question regarding index search return list ordering
Keywords: index search next pager
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:48:53 GMT

What is the ordering of the returned "hit" list from an index search 
against an index built on the NEXT? I know that on a NEXT one can control
the sort order of this return list, and that one of the options is a simple
weighting algorithm. Does Gopher utilize this?

A second question is the "pager" used to present documents in the Unix
interface. Has any thought been given to having a Gopher pager environment
variable or storing the pager to be used in the .gopherrc file? Hiliting the
hits from an index search only works with "more" or with the appropriate
flags on "less", and one might not want this as one's default Unix PAGER.
-- 
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Internet: mike-grady@uiuc.edu   phone: (217) 244-1253    fax: (217) 244-7089
Disclaimer: The opinions of CCSO may differ from mine.
From: mehta@dcdlaa (Mehta Darshan)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Xgopher help?
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:23:42 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL
NNTP-Posting-Host: dcdlaa.fnal.gov
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have successfully been able to run Xgopher on an SGI machine.  However, there is one problem that still exists.  Whenever I try to access the help file, for 
some reason, I am not able to.  Xgopher does not acknowledge any help file. If 
anyone has any suggestions/hints or a solution to this problem, please write me
at:

Darshan@imsa.edu

Thanks
From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: gnntp--a simple Gopher NNTP gateway
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:09:14
Organization: MicroMuse
	<1992Nov10.225655.10241@engr.latech.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: chezmoto.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: dan@engr.latech.edu's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:56:55 GMT

We are interested in using TurboGopher to access NNTP news.

One thing we like about TurboGopher is the way it recognizes and
decodes BinHex and compression utilities.  Will gnntp be able to
recognize BinHex or uuencoded enclosures and automagically convert
them?  Such a feature would make it much more user-friendly than
current Mac newsreaders, which don't recognize BinHex enclosures.

While we are on this point, I observe that TurboGopher has trouble
handling BinHex files that include substantial text before the
BinHex enclosure.  Many archives on info-mac are like this, and
TurboGopher converts them in such a way that Stuffit, etc, reject
as invalid.  Autoconversion of BinHex and uuencoded enclosures needs
to be able to separtely strip off and save any ASCII text which
precedes the enclosure.

Barry Kort
Consulting Scientist
Educational Technology Research
BBN Labs
Cambridg, MA

bkort@bbn.com
barry@michael.ai.mit.edu
Original-To: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Original-Cc: jcs@polaris.uis.itd.umich.edu
Subject: University of Michigan - Math Department Gopher
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 17:55:39 -0500
From: Mark.A.Gebert@math.lsa.umich.edu (The Geeb)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Distribution: comp

-----------

This is to announce the availability of the UM-Math department gopher (it be
production):

Name=University of Michigan, Math Department Gopher
Type=1
Path=
Port=70
Host=gopher.math.lsa.umich.edu


Cheers,

--geeb

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: ullmer@uiuc.edu (Brygg Ullmer)
Subject: Re: "Gopherwalk", anyone? 
Originator: bau50671@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: ullmer@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:24:40 GMT

doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:

>I need a tool which takes a list of adresses and walks down their trees 
>in GOPHER. Is such a tool or a silmilar software existent, please let
>me know. 

Can you provide a bit more detail about your needs?  I'm completing the
alpha version of an extension to the Unix Gopher client which might well
satisfy your problem, or at least provide a solution with minor 
modifications, but I can't be sure from the information you've
provided.

Brygg Ullmer