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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 10:11:07 EDT
Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
From: Jim Gerland - Network User Support <GERLAND@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
Subject: #2 Getting Connected
To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
GETTING CONNECTED
There are several ways to get information from a Gopher server. On
a Unix, VMS, or CMS system, if a Gopher client is installed, preferably
by the systems' administrator, all you have to do is type the word
"gopher" at the system prompt. The machine immediately takes over
and goes out to retrieve a menu from a Gopher server-the first door
to what is called "Gopherspace"
You may have a DOS or windows or Mac menuing system that allows you to
click on a Gopher item that gives you direct connection or an
X window system that will start at a command. It depends on your
system and if a Gopher client has been installed.
Networks, however, do crash from time to time, or are down for
maintenance, etc, so using a substitute Gopher may be needed at
some point. If you have a gopher client on your system you may want
to go directly to a specific Gopher server.
You use the word "gopher," then the remote machine address to get
directly into a Gopher server. You will then receive a menu from
the remote server. You do need a gopher client and a TCP/IP connection
in order for this to work.
Here are addresses of several remote machines:
Name=Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
Type=0
Port=70
Path=0/Welcome
Host=vixen.cso.uiuc.edu
(I'll use the above Gopher in my examples.)
Name=University of Minnesota Gopher Server, Home of the Gopher
Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu
Name=InterNIC-- Internet's new $12 million Network Information
Center
Host=gopher.ds.internic.net
Name=Merit -- Merit/NSFNET Information Services (Internet Info)
Host=nic.merit.edu
Name=UB Wings - State Uninversity of New York at Buffalo CWIS
Host=wings.buffalo.edu
Name=University of Michigan GOpherBLUE Service
Host=gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu
Name=University of North Texas
Host=gopher.unt.edu
Name=Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server
Host=info.hed.apple.com
Name=CERFnet Network Information Services
Host=gopher.cerf.net
Name=CNUCE Institute - National Research Council of Italy, Pisa,
Host=gopher.cnuce.cnr.it
Name=Australian National University
Host=info.anu.edu.au
Name=Ben Gurion University Gopher (Israel)
Host=gopher.bgu.ac.il
Name=CSCS - Swiss Scientific Computing Center, (CH)
Host=pobox.cscs.ch
Name=DENet Danish Academic Network, (DK)
Host=gopher.denet.dk
Name=EUnet in Germany, (DE)
Host=ftp.Germany.eu.net
If you don't have a Gopher client installed on your local machine,
you can use telnet to access a Gopher client. Depending on your
operating system, you can use the word "telnet" and a remote
machine address to access Gopher logging in as "gopher", in most
cases. Your telnet may work differently. You may telnet from a
menu system or from an icon depending on your system.
Here are some publicly accessible telnet gopher sites.
Hostname IP# Login Area
------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America
gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America
panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America
gopher.sunet.se 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe
info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia
gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden
tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America
ecnet.ec 157.100.45.2 gopher Ecuador
tn3270 Public Logins:
Hostname IP# Login Area
------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
pubinfo.ais.umn.edu 128.101.109.1 -none- North America
It is recommended that you run gopher from a Gopher client which is
free over the Internet. The client/server based Gopher program is
more efficient and saves network resources compared to telneting
to a site. We will talk about getting and installing a client
later in the Course.
There are other ways to access Gopher. For example, the World Wide
Web (WWW) will give you access to Gopherspace.
If you have a client installed it is most likely pointed at a
preferred gopher server for your institution. The first method of
typing "gopher" will get you there in the easiest way possible.
Richard J. Smith
smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Jim Gerland
gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology