While providing a delivery vehicle for local information, Gopher facilitates access to other Gopher and information servers throughout the world.
Gopher appears to the user as a set of menus.
At each menu, an item can be selected, or the user may retrace their steps to the previous menu. Selecting menu items can lead to a variety of actions being performed, including displaying another menu, displaying a file, transferring a binary file, searching an index. In this implementation of Gopher, AmigaGuide is used as the user interface, and menu items can be selected by clicking on them. Reverting to the previous menu is accomplished by using the standard AmigaGuide Retrace button. Closing all the AmigaGuide windows terminates the Gopher session.