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- Yale University
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- TELNET GOPHER.YCC.YALE.EDU or 130.132.21.250
- login: gopher
- Gopher/Enterprise Coordination
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- Gopher is an experimental extension of Enterprise services. All the
- data present in Enterprise is supposed to be in near-perfect
- synchronization with the data in Gopher. When a file is updated on
- Enterprise, it is automatically sent to Gopher. Every hour, Gopher
- wakes up, checks for new files, translates the Enterprise format to the
- plain ASCII it prefers, and stores the file in its proper place. So
- there should never be more than 2 hours lag in data update between
- Enterprise and Gopher.
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- Every night at 4am, past events in some selected files (like the Weekly
- Bulletin and Movies) are stripped away. The whole database is
- re-indexed then, so even though the data may be current the index is
- only as current as the previous day.
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- If you notice gross disparity in data, which remains over a couple of
- days, please notify Mitch Block (2-6599, MSBLOCK@YALEVM).
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- The only significant difference you will find between Gopher and
- Enterprise is under the 'Libraries' heading: direct connections to both
- Orbis and Nexis are provided.
-