Information is easily accessible by browsing through the menus, reading information on-line, and downloading information you want to keep. TurboGopher is the most popular client application for the Macintosh. It's available on CNS Distribution. To access CU's Gopher server, gopher to gopher. Gopher clients for most platforms can be FTPed from the server boombox.micro.umn.EDU .
Gopher offers many search mechanisms.
Veronica is a tool to search menu titles of all the Gopher servers. You can also search all of Gopher space. Many other searchable items are available as well. In TurboGopher they are marked with a question mark. Information is made available in databases, called sources.