From: cooper@utopia.cc.nd.edu
Subject: RE:  Zen and the art of Gopher
Organization: (none)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:32:25 GMT

There is a localized version of a general "What is Gopher" document  
sitting at the Notre Dame Gopher in "About the Notre Dame  
Gopher"/Gopher class document.  It is admittedly slightly dated but  
you are welcome to check it out and comment (to me, not to the list)  
if you wish.

Looking at the Gopher FAQ may also be of interest

Joel
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From: dmanning@nero.UVic.CA (David  Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: New GIF server and X client
Date: 10 Aug 92 17:47:01 GMT

	We have just uploaded new versions of the unix gopher server (with GIF
image support) based on gopher 1.02, and the XGopher client (with GIF and 
document linking support) to boombox. They can be found in the /pub/gopher/
incoming directory as gopher1.02.GIF.tar.Z and xgopher.1.1.GIF.tar.Z.

A brief summary follows:

I. GIF Support
 
        GIF support was added to gopher by Dave Manning (dmanning@nero.UVic.CA)
in late April of '92 to allow gopher clients to view our large collection of
digitized images. GIF was chosen since it is one of the most platform
independent image protocols available. Whenever a GIF file is requested by
a XClient the image is piped into the local image display program
(which defaults to xloadimage). Modifications were made to the v0.9, v1.0
and v1.01 servers to support GIF. Modifications were also made
to versions 1.1 and 1.1a XGopher clients (which were originally written by
Allan Tuchman, who can be contacted at a-tuchman@uiuc.edu). These versions
will be uploaded to boombox in the near future for public consumption.
Several sites are currently using our system and a bit more testing is still
in order. Any site interested in trying the system 'as is' is more than
welcome.
 
Important Note: The GIF support uses a new file type 'g' which is
not currently recognized as a valid file identifer by the University of
Minnesota. This file type is subject to change at any time.

II. Link Support
 
        Link support was added to gopher in late May of '92 by Michael
Mansell (mmansell@nero.UVic.CA) to provide the capability to find
files and documents by relation other than directory structure. For example,
a file on Native North American fishes would have link to images of those
fishes as well as to poetry regarding N.N.A. fishes. The user could quickly
choose which link(s) they wish to follow. This linking system is very
similar to the one implemented by the .cap files in gopher, however, these
links are located inside of files, instead of the in the directory structure.
Linking is accomplished by adding extra lines at the beginning of files.
These lines are of the form:
 
#link <Real Name> <Selector String> <type> <host> <port>
 
where the < > represent the actual gopher retrieval information for the link.
More than one link may be present in a file, but must be on consecutive lines
starting from the first line in the file.
 
an example of a file with links is:
 
#link Picture g/misc/images/Cartoon/bugsbunny.gif g gopher.micro.umn.edu 70
#link Sound s/misc/sounds/Looneytunes/letmeatim-bb.au s gopher.micro.umn.edu 70
Welcome to the Associated File and Graphics supported Xgopher client.
Please feel free to contact us if there are any problems or suggestions

If there are any problems getting this code to compile/run please do not 
hesitate to contact me (dmanning@nero.uvic.ca) or Mike (mmansell@nero.uvic.ca).

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From: JONZY@CC.UTAH.EDU (Jonzy)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: MacGopher 0.5b3 is now available
Date: 7 Aug 92 21:51:00 GMT

MacGopher 0.5b3 is now available from:

Gopher protocol:
	host = augusta.cc.utah.edu
	port = 70

	The file to retrieve is MacGopher.sit.hqx, or you can go into
	the MacGopher directory and retrieve the individual items.

anonymous ftp:
	ftp.cc.utah.edu in /pub/gopher/Macintosh/MacGopher.sit.hqx


Forgot to write information about "gTelnet2.5" to the preferences file.
this has now been fixed.

Fixed a bug that sometimes disable a Window Menu item, where the window
item was retrieved via a bookmark.

Added a feature, at "Torsten Heycke" request, that will make the string
in which a search was performed be visible in some fashion.  The way this
is now done is to append this information to the title of the pane, for
Index-Search items only.  You can also acquire this information by
reselecting the Index-Search item and looking at the string to search on.

Please send any bug reports, suggestions, and or complaints to me.
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