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From: dominic@csc.mgate1.cuhk.hk (Dominic Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: .gopher files
Date: 17 Aug 92 03:49:37 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Services Centre

In article <MAILQUEUE-99.920814102151.75@rc.rug.nl> HAIJKO@RC.RUG.NL writes:
>
>He showed me a patch he made on the gopherd software.
>The most important improvement he made was the introduction of a
>.gopher file to replace .cap and .link
>

We do have a similar implementation.  We do hope this feature to be included 
in the standard distribution.

Regards.

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Dominic Chow
Computer Services Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Internet Address : dominic@next.csc.cuhk.hk   Phone: (852) 609-8835
Bitnet Address   : A893700@CUCSC.BITNET       Fax  : (852) 603-5001
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From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Gopher for the Technically Impaired
Date: 14 Aug 1992 15:27:04 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

_Zen_ is available by
	ftp from ftp.cs.widener.edu:/pub/zen/
	archie search for "zen" in your favorite gopher/archie gateway
	This is the free 1st edition.

_Zen II_ is available from Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-13-010778-6) list price
$22 or so, available also in bulk quantities at substantial discounts.  
Msen bought a bunch and we're in the process of giving them out to our
dedicated IP customers.

I'm expecting that _Zen III_ will include a chapter on gopher.

  Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
        Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 4562
 for more information on Msen products & services contact info@msen.com
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: daniel@bauhaus.micro.umn.edu (Daniel Torrey)
Subject: PC Gopher II v1.05 Release
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:05:21 GMT


The latest version of PC Gopher II, v1.05, is now available via anonymous
ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory  /pub/gopher/PC_client.
Highlights from the release notes:

 *******************************************************
 *** PC Gopher II v1.05 Release Notes:   21 Aug 1992 ***
 *******************************************************

Bugs fixed since 1.04
---------------------

 - the bookmark file no longer grows every time it's used


New Features since 1.04
-----------------------

 - the CSO support is much improved.  See the manual for full
 instructions

 - there's yet another command line switch & environment variable: /G
 and G_LOG.  This'll let folks specify where they want the error log file
 to be written, either with the command line switch:

    C:\> GOPHER /L Z:\PATH\TO\FILE\FILENAME.EXT

 or by setting the environment variable:

    C:\> SET G_LOG=Z:\PATH\TO\FILE\FILENAME.EXT
    C:\> GOPHER


Once again, you'll need to run gopher with the /INIT switch to update your
.REZ file.


Happy Gophering...


--

Daniel A. Torrey                           daniel@bauhaus.micro.umn.edu
University of Minnesota                                  (612) 626-8663
CIS/UAP/ETC               In gopherspace, no one can hear you scream...
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: hanusj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Hanus)
Subject: Problem searching with PC Gopher
Organization: Biological Computing Consortium, OSU, Corvallis, OR.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:00:04 GMT

We're putting together an experimental gopher to locate data on
microbial cultures.  Gopher browses through the directory tree 
fine. The searching facility works from Mac
Internet Gopher, MacGopher,  Unix Gopher clients.  However my PC gopherII
1.04 fails to return any successful searches.  I get the "When I
looked, I didn't find anything" message.  The searching and
indexing appear to be working because when you browse down
through the directories, the files that contained the search
strings show the appropriate text highlighted.  If you search for
text that is not in any of the files, the "search not successful,
here is the whole catalog" message appears.   My PC gopher client
is able to perform searches on other servers however.  IUB genetics
and Molecular biology servers, various campus newspapers can 
searched with no problem.

Any ideas for what is wrong?

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: schemers@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers)
Subject: Re: g2nntp Access syntax?
Summary: oops
Organization: Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:14:28 GMT


In article <1992Aug12.221227.857@leland.Stanford.EDU> schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers) writes:
>
..ACL stuff...

>
>I guess that would be me :-) The latest version should be in the 
>pub/gopher/incoming directory on boombox.micro.umn.edu.  The syntax
>for the acl is basically:
>

oops. Reverse those two sections. 

Roland
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Systems Programmer                  |            168 Pine Hall   (415)-723-6740
Distributed Computing Group         |            Stanford, CA 94305-4122
Stanford University                 |            schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: The current "other servers" file?
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:06:16 GMT

I'm handling the gopher here at csd4.csd.uwm.edu, and I sure could use
a little help.  :)  Is there a current "other servers" file, and if
so, could someone please place it here or mail it to me?

Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
Subject: Internet Gopher in elementary schools
Organization: (none)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1992 20:30:22 GMT

A note for those who may be interested: there are at least 
a few groups looking at Internet Gopher as a good way
to bring the information riches of the Internet to 
elementary school children.

I agree -- if the Internet is becoming our [inter]national
data highway system, then Gopher is one of the easiest and 
friendliest ways to tool down these digital highways & byways.

-- Don

-- 
Don Gilbert                                     gilbert@bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405

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Date: 9 Aug 92 02:38:16 GMT
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: Internet Gopher in elementary schools
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher

Gopher is a piece of the system that CICnet is putting together to support
the GTE "Pioneering Partners" effort to get 150-odd K-12 teachers from the
Great Lakes states on line.

--Ed
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: online economic data
Date: 20 Aug 1992 23:33:40 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

this is interesting for those who are collecting economic data, e.g. the
set of sites that has pointers to the U of Michigan "Economic Bulletin
Board" would almost certainly want to look at this and see if it makes
sense to put it on-line under gopher

--Ed

[ Article crossposted from alt.internet.services ]
[ Author was adamg@eff.org ]
[ Posted on Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:29:09 GMT ]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the University of Maine have 
run a BBS for a couple of years to disseminate all sorts of economic 
data. Now most of the files from this New England Economic Data Center 
are available through anonymous FTP at neeedc.umesbs.maine.edu (note 
the three e's in "neeedc") 
 
They cover everything from unemployment to housing to energy 
statistics going back to 1969, and are updated monthly. As you might 
expect, they tend to focus on the New England states and cities, but 
most of the files also have a column for nationwide numbers.  Almost 
all the files can be imported into a spreadsheet (they provide simple
directions for Lotus and Quattro).
 
The ftp site also has gross state product data from the Bureau of 
Economic Analysis.  Unfortunately, one thing not on the ftp site, at 
least not yet, is the Commerce Department's National Trade Database. 
To see that, you'll have to dial into the original BBS:  (207) 581-
1867.




-- 
Adam Gaffin
adamg@eff.org     Voice: (508) 626-3968
Putting the Internet on paper!
From: lindner@mudhoney (Paul Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: New archie gateway available
Date: 21 Aug 92 05:16:22 GMT
Reply-To: lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu.
Distribution: comp

I've just put together a better archie gateway for gopher.

It's a module for Roland Schemer's go4gw.  It's now linked in to the
gopher.micro.umn.edu server.

I've also cobbled together a g2geo gateway for the infamous Geographic
Name server!  Too cool for words...  It's linked in on
gopher.micro.umn.edu's Library / Reference Works.

All of the above, along with an updated g2whois and g2webster will be
released in a very short while.

-- 
 | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu   | Slipping into madness
 |              | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
 | GopherMaster | University of Minnesota         | of comparision.
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: The Macintosh GopherApp
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:52:30 GMT

bk@Turing.ORG (Brian Knatz) writes:
> I want to make a
> GopherApp file that opens automatically to our own hole.  

> "New Gopher Link" or "Edit Gopher Link" options under the "Internet"
> menu, but both options are grayed out (as is the "Text" menu(?))

First, which version are you using?  The latest is 1.3b56.

If you want to create a GopherApp file, the easiest way is to do a "Save
As", then open that file using "Open as Text", and edit the various fields.
Make sure the fields are separated by the appropriate tabs and stuff.  After
you edit it, you'll need to change the FILETYPE from "TEXT" to "IGo4".  You
can do this with ResEdit or File Fanatic (which doesn't seem to be on
sumex-aim anymore).

However, when you double-click on the GopherApp application, you'll still
get someone else's gopher server as the default.  This is less than ideal.

The way to change this default is to use ResEdit.  Open GopherApp with it,
and open the IGo4 resources.  In it, each individual resource is a pointer
to a gopher server (except resource #0).  I just deleted all of them (except
#0) and made resource #128 be a pointer to our own gopher server.  To open
one of the resources, open it with "Open Using Template" and choose "TEXT"
as the template.  Make sure the tabs and stuff are preserved.  The format is
important.

Anyway, this is all unofficial.  If this trashes your system and makes your
house burn down or something, don't blame me.  However, it works reliably for
us.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
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Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA.  Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.   All Rights Reserved.
Original-To: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
From: FRANK@sbacs1.ucis.dal.ca ("Frank Smyth" )
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:48:13 ADT
Subject: unsubscribe
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From: dano@asihub.sd.cadence.com (Dan O'Neill)
Subject: gohper client under AIX
Reply-To: dano@asihub.sd.cadence.com ()
Organization: Cadence Design Systems
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 20:34:38 GMT

I've compiled gopher version 1.02 under AIX, but when I try to run the
client I get the following termlib error message:

	% ./gopher
	I don't understand your terminal type

This happens whether I login on the console or rsh through an xterm
window to the system.  Not knowing a whole lot about AIX, I could
use some expert advice.  Thanks.

-- 
Dan O'Neill     Cadence Design Systems, San Diego, CA
Domain: dano@sd.cadence.com          dano@cadence.com
UUCP: {uunet|ncr-sd}!asihub!dano     ...!cadence!dano
From: daniel@bauhaus (Daniel Torrey)
Subject: PC Gopher II v1.05 Release
Original-To: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 14:57:31 CDT
Original-Cc: lnicoll@maine.maine.edu, tmg@boombox.micro.umn.edu,
        daniel@bauhaus (Daniel Torrey)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Distribution: comp

The latest version of PC Gopher II, v1.05, is now available via anonymous
ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu in the directory  /pub/gopher/PC_client.
Higlights from the release notes:

 *******************************************************
 *** PC Gopher II v1.05 Release Notes:   21 Aug 1992 ***
 *******************************************************

Bugs fixed since 1.04
---------------------

 - the bookmark file no longer grows every time it's used


New Features since 1.04
-----------------------

 - the CSO support is much improved.  See the manual for full
 instructions

 - there's yet another command line switch & environment variable: /G
 and G_LOG.  This'll let folks specify where they want the error log file
 to be written, either with the command line switch:

    C:\> GOPHER /L Z:\PATH\TO\FILE\FILENAME.EXT

 or by setting the environment variable:

    C:\> SET G_LOG=Z:\PATH\TO\FILE\FILENAME.EXT
    C:\> GOPHER


Once again, you'll need to run gopher with the /INIT switch to update your
 .REZ file.


Happy Gophering...

-- 

Daniel A. Torrey                           daniel@bauhaus.micro.umn.edu
University of Minnesota                                  (612) 626-8663
CIS/UAP/ETC               In gopherspace, no one can hear you scream...
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Packet Driver
From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 12 Aug 92 08:37:07 PDT
Organization: Sonoma state university

Where can I found the most recent version of the packet driver for a 3 com 
523 card ?


Thanks

Michel Davidoff
From: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu ("The Gopher Team" )
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Gopher+: proposed enhancements to the internet Gopher protocol
Date: 15 Aug 92 03:54:27 GMT
Distribution: comp

The internet Gopher protocol has been quite successful; but this
success has brought demands for enhancements that are difficult 
to efficiently accommodate in the current protocol. Among other things
Gopher needs a good way to transfer binary data, a way to associate more 
information with Gopher items, and a way for Gopher clients to send
information to Gopher servers. To keep gopher implementations
interoperating, it is crucial that protocol enhancements to 
accomodate these need not be made in a patchwork or site-specific
fashion. It is also important that any changes to the Gopher protocol
are upward compatible with current Gopher software.

Wednesday and Thursday of this week, CICnet sponsored a workshop
on Gopher in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the workshop, representatives
from the University of Minnesota Gopher development team proposed
a set of enhancements to the gopher protocol; the enhanced protocol
is called Gopher+. We have incorporated changes to the Gopher+ proposal 
suggested at the workshop and are now making this proposal generally
available to the gopher community for comment.

Note that the Gopher+ proposal is not set in concrete and may change
as we work to implement Gopher+ clients and servers... but we do not
expect major deviations from the proposal. Note also that the current
Gopher clients will work with Gopher+ servers and Gopher+ clients will
work with current gopher servers. The Gopher+ protocol enhances the
current gopher protocol in a seamless fashion. Think of it this way...
the old gopher could only carry a limited number of nuts in its cheeks,
and Gopher+ is a way to strap an expandable bag on the side of the gopher
so it can carry more nuts than before.

The Gopher+ protocol description is available both via Gopher and via
anonymous ftp.

To fetch it via Gopher, burrow to the University of Minnesota's
gopher server, then to Information about Gopher, then to Gopher Protocol
Information, finally into the Gopher+ directory.  Read the readme and
fetch the representation that suits you best.

Or use anonymous ftp to connect to boombox.micro.umn.edu.  Look in 
/pub/gopher/gopher_protocol/Gopher+/

Please send comments and feedback to the gopher team at:
    <gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu>

A good place to discuss the issues is on the USENET newsgroup
comp.infosystems.gopher.

Many thanks to CICnet and the folks at the Gopher Workshop for the
invaluable feedback and encouragement.

  - The Gopher Team: Bob, Daniel, Farhad, Mark, Paul.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
From: greene@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Courtney Greene)
Subject: exec in gopher 1.01
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:30:18 GMT

Hello,
I've posted here on another occasion with this same problem, I cannot
seem to exec a script file from within gopher 1.01.

At this point all I want to do is echo a string to the screen, here's
what I've done:

	Name=Echo
	Type=0
	Path=exec:" ":/testing
	Host=+
	Path=+

testing is located in gophers root directory and it contains:

	#!/bin/csh -f
	/bin/echo "Hello\n"
	exit 0

When I select the exec file, nothing is displayed except the one-line
menu Press <RETURN> to Continue ... :

Should csh & echo be contained within gophers tree?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks,
CG
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher,comp.infosystems.wais
From: peter@julian.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
Subject: Re: waisindex-ing a gopher directory but avoiding .cap and .cache
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:42:38 GMT

You can make the .cap and .cache files unreadable for the short period
that it takes to generate the recursive waisindex.  I index my mh
foldered e-mail using the following commands:

# Make mh index files unreadable so that they aren't WAIS indexed
find . \( -name .xmhcache -o -name .mh_sequences -o -name .emhcache \) \
  -exec chmod u-r {} \;
waisindex -l 1 -nopos -nocat -mem 40 -r -export -d peter-mail -t netnews inbox\
 outbox net old/outbox.*[1-9] other outbox unix
# Make the mh index files readable again
find . \( -name .xmhcache -o -name .mh_sequences -o -name .emhcache \) \
  -exec chmod u+r {} \;


You could do something similar.
-- 
--
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CCS, NSC, U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7 (519)661-2111x6032
From: netmgr@tellus.csc.fi
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: handling of Control-c in Unix gopher client v1.02
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:46:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Original-To: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu

If I make changes to my bookmarks or other .gopherrc entries
and then interrupt gopher with control-c it doesn't save my
modifications. Here's a simple fix that asks if the you want to
save .gopherrc when exiting. It also removes a error-message
if there isn't a temporary file in /tmp.

*** gopher.c.orig	Fri Aug 21 20:26:29 1992
--- gopher.c	Fri Aug 21 20:35:24 1992
***************
*** 555,564 ****
  controlc()
  {
       char buf[HALFLINE];
  
       sprintf(buf, "/tmp/gopher.%d", getpid());
       if (unlink(buf) < 0)
! 	  fprintf(stderr, "could not unlink %s\n", buf);
  
       CURexit(CursesScreen);
       exit(0);
--- 555,576 ----
  controlc()
  {
       char buf[HALFLINE];
+      char yesno[3];
  
       sprintf(buf, "/tmp/gopher.%d", getpid());
       if (unlink(buf) < 0)
!           if (errno != ENOENT)
! 	       fprintf(stderr, "could not unlink %s\n", buf);
!        
! 
!      if (ChangedDefs) {
!           yesno[0] = 'y';
!           yesno[1] = '\0';
!           CURgetYesorNo(CursesScreen, "Rc file modified, save (y/n) ?", yesno);
!           if (*yesno == 'y') {
! 	       write_rc();
!           }
!      }
  
       CURexit(CursesScreen);
       exit(0);

There also should be a gopher_exit that does similar cleanup's instead of the
numerous exit(1) and exit(-1) calls that are done in case of severe
errors.

Pekka Kyt|laakso
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Pekka.Kytolaakso@csc.fi  PL 40   SF-02101 Espoo FINLAND
Phone: +358 0 4571       Telefax: + 358 0 4572302
From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Gopher+ Client desired feature
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:54:22 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

In <mtm.714415890@CAMIS> mtm@camis.Stanford.EDU (Mike Macgirvin) writes:

>	Something I'd like to see in an advanced Gopher+ client (maybe
>because of overhead this wouldn't be efficient on some systems), is
>for the client to keep a date pointer to the current gopher dir when
>you access a document within it. Then you could have a basis for
>highlighting "new items" when you access that dir at a future date.
>The restriction on keeping the date only if you accessed a document
>there would help keep this list to a "reasonable" size, since we often
>browse a lot, but there are a finite number of things which interest
>us.

I've thought about this as well.  It would be useful to have a client
that would "watch" a certain directory.  You could then perhaps start
the client up with another flag (-w?) that would show you all the new
stuff since you last accessed it.

Actually isn't making a bookmark akin to "subscribing" to a piece of
information?  

>	You know, a system like that could form a basis for a next
>generation USENET. This one's getting real choked... Think about it...

Yes, I like this idea.  I think with replication heuristics we could
make gopher into something that could replace usenet.

(A replication heuristic is a definition in the server, if a link is
accessed X number of times, the actual data is mirrored from the
master server.  Thus frequently accessed information is stored
locally, while infrequently accessed information isn't.  Funky eh?)
--
 | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu   | Slipping into madness
 |              | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
 | GopherMaster | University of Minnesota         | of comparision.
///// / / /    /////// / / / /  /  /  /   /      //// / / / /  /  /  /   /
From: LSTAL@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL (ellen)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: unsubscribe
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:51:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
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From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: lamont view-server
Date: 19 Aug 92 03:00:23 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I believe that I heard of someone gluing together the Lamont View Server
and Gopher.  Any clues where this might have come from?  

--Ed
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