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Network Working Group                                  J. Foster, Editor

Request for Comments: 1689             University of Newcastle upon Tyne

RARE Technical Report: 13                                    August 1994

FYI: 25

Category: Informational





                            A Status Report

                                   on

           Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups





     Produced as a collaborative effort by the Joint IETF/RARE/CNI

        Networked Information Retrieval - Working Group (NIR-WG)



Status of this Memo



   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo

   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of

   this memo is unlimited.



Abstract



   The purpose of this report is to increase the awareness of Networked

   Information Retrieval by bringing together in one place information

   about the various networked information retrieval tools, their

   developers, interested organisations, and other activities that

   relate to the production, dissemination, and support of NIR tools.

   NIR Tools covered include Archie, WAIS, gopher and World Wide Web.



Table of Contents



    1.   Introduction ..............................................   2

    2.   How the information was collected .........................   3

    3.   What is covered? ..........................................   3

    4.   Updating information ......................................   5

    5.   Overview of the types of NIR Tool .........................   5

    6.   NIR Tools .................................................   9

    7.   NIR Groups ................................................ 123

    8.   Security Considerations ................................... 180

    9.   Acknowledgements .......................................... 180

   10.   Author's Address .......................................... 180

   11.   Appendix A: NIR Tool Template ............................. 181

   12.   Appendix B: NIR Group Template ............................ 188

   13.   Appendix C: Email Lists and Newsgroups .................... 192

   14.   Appendix D: Coming Attractions ............................ 207

   15.   Appendix E: Extinct Critters (Tools) ...................... 222

   16.   Appendix F: Extinct Critters (Groups) ..................... 222







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1.   Introduction



   As the network has grown, along with it there has been an increase in

   the number of software tools and applications to navigate the network

   and make use of the many, varied resources which are part of the

   network.  Within the past two and a half years we have seen a

   widespread adoption of tools such as the archie servers, the Wide

   Area Information Servers (WAIS), the Internet gopher, and the

   Worldwide Web (WWW).  In addition to the acceptance of these tools

   there are also diverse efforts to enhance and customise these tools

   to meet the needs of particular network communities.



   There are many organisations and associations that are focusing on

   the proliferating resources and tools for networked information

   retrieval (NIR).  The Networked Information Retrieval Group is a

   cooperative effort of three major players in the field of NIR: The

   Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Association of European

   Research Networks (RARE) and the Coalition for Networked Information

   (CNI), specifically tasked to collect and disseminate information

   about the tools and to discuss and encourage cooperative development

   of current and future tools.



   The purpose of this report is to increase the awareness of NIR by

   bringing together in one place information about the various

   networked information retrieval tools, their developers, interested

   organisations, and other activities that relate to the production,

   dissemination, and support of NIR tools.  The intention is to make

   this a "living document".  It will be held on-line so that each

   section may be updated separately as appropriate.  In addition, it is

   intended that the full document will be updated once a year so that

   it provides a "snapshot" report on activities in this area.



   Whilst the NIR tools in this report are being used on a wide variety

   of information sources including files and databases there remains

   much that is currently not accessible by these means.  On the other

   hand, the majority of the NIR Tools described here are freely

   available to the networked Research and Education community.  Tools

   for accessing specialised datasets are often only available at a

   cost.



   It should be noted that in many ways networked information retrieval

   is in its infancy compared with traditional information retrieval

   systems.  Thesaurus construction, boolean searching and

   classification control are issues which are under discussion for the

   popular NIR Tools but as yet are not in widespread use.  However it

   should be said that, with the vast amount of effort that is currently

   going into the NIR field, rapid progress is being made.  Much work is

   currently being done on expanding some of the NIR tools to include







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   handling of multimedia information services.  Progress has also been

   made in the discussions on classifying and cataloguing electronic

   information resources.



2.  How the information was collected



   The information contained in this report was collected over the

   network from the contacts for each NIR Tool or Group using two

   templates:



     - the NIR Tool Template, included in Appendix A;

     - the NIR Group Template, included in Appendix B.



   The contents of these templates were discussed by the NIR WG in

   Boston (July, 1992) and subsequently on the email list.  (See the

   Section on the NIR-WG for details of how to join this mailing list.)

   The initial draft report was discussed at the NIR Working Group in

   Washington (November, 1992) and updated and added to at subsequent WG

   meetings.  Before the final submission as an RFC the individual

   templates were reviewed by independent reviewers from around the

   world.  Their efforts are acknowledged in Section 9.



   The NIR Tool template was used to collect the information necessary

   to identify and track the development of networked information

   retrieval tools.  This template asked for information such as how and

   where to get the software for each NIR Tool, documentation,

   demonstration sites, etc.  The main part of the template has been

   completed by the main individual responsible for the tool.  Sections

   of the template (e.g., on clients) may have required completion by

   others.



   The NIR Group template requested information on the aim and purpose

   of the group, the current tasks being undertaken, mailing lists,

   document archives, etc.



3.  What is covered?



   In the current report you will find information on the following NIR

   tools:



      Alex

      archie

      gopher

      Hytelnet

      Netfind

      Prospero

      Veronica

      WAIS  (including freeWAIS)







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      WHOIS

      World Wide Web  (including MOSAIC)

      X.500 White Pages



      Appendix D covers "Forthcoming Attractions":

         Hyper-G

         Soft Pages

         WHOIS++



 and the following NIR Groups:



      CNI          Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

                   Architectures and Standards

                   Directories and Resource Information Services

                   TopNode for Networked Information Resources,

                                                  Services and Tools



      CNIDR        Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery

                                                       and Retrieval



      IETF         Integrated Directory Services (IDS)

                   Integration of Internet Information Resources (IIIR)

                   Networked Information Retrieval (NIR)

                      joint IETF/RARE WG

                   Network Information Services Infrastructure (NISI)

                   OSI-Directory Service (OSI-DS)

                   Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)

                   Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (WNILS)



      IRTF         Internet Research Task Force Research Group on

                     Resource Discovery and Directory Service (IRTF-RD)



      NISO         Z39.50 Implementors Group



      RARE         Information Services and User Support Working Group

                     (ISUS)



      USMARC/OCLC  USMARC Advisory Group; OCLC Internet Resources

                        Cataloging Experiment (USMARC/OCLC)



   Appendix C contains a list of the relevant email lists and Appendix D

   contains information on "Coming Attractions" which are NIR tools not

   yet in widespread use.

















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4.  Updating Information



   Updates on and additions to the information contained in this report

   are welcome. CNIDR have agreed to host the report and to accept

   updates to individual templates from the template maintainers.  Send

   updates using the appropriate template (from Appendix A or Appendix B

   of this report) to:



   [e-mail]



   The current templates and this report may be retrieved from the UK

   Mailbase Server:



   Via anonymous ftp (use your email address as the password):



     URL: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/nir/files/tool.template

     URL: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/nir/files/group.template

     URL: ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/nir/files/nir.status.report



   or via gopher or World Wide Web to mailbase.ac.uk



   or via email:



     Mail to:  [e-mail]



  Text of the message:



     send nir tool.template

     send nir group.template

     send nir nir.status.report



5.  Overview of the types of NIR Tools



   The following is an overview of major networked information retrieval

   (NIR) tools available on the Internet.  There are many excellent

   books which discuss the Internet and NIR Tools in detail.  Such books

   include "The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog" by Ed Krol and

   published by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc and "The Internet Guide for

   New Users" by Daniel Dearn and published by Meckler.



   The number of these NIR tools is large and growing quickly.  Certain

   techniques reappear regularly and seemingly different tools may

   perform similar tasks, allowing a simple classification of projects

   encompassing most of the existing tools and services.















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   The classification presented here is only one possible ordering.  The

   goal is to define in broad outlines what can be done with particular

   tools, realizing that users will always find novel unanticipated ways

   of applying them.



   Interactive Information Delivery Services (Gopher, World Wide Web)



      Basic Internet services such as electronic mail and anonymous FTP

      can be used to share information across the Internet, but neither

      allows simple browsing and neither is particularly easy for the

      newcomer to learn to use.  Gopher and the World Wide Web (W3) are

      two recent developments that attempt to make it easier to

      distribute information over the Internet.  Both allow the user to

      browse information across the network without the necessity of

      logging in or knowing in advance where to look for information.



      The Gopher project was first developed at the University of

      Minnesota to provide a simple campus-wide on-line information

      system.  Gopher represents information as a simple hierarchy of

      menus and files.  It has limited capability to recognize different

      types of files, allowing, for example, the display of selected

      types of image files.  Gateways to other services are provided

      (usually in a manner that is transparent to the user).  The

      underlying Gopher protocol is simple, and has facilitated the

      creation of freely available clients for use on a variety of

      hardware platforms and operating systems.  The more recent Gopher+

      protocol adds the ability to provide documents in alternate forms

      (PDF, PostScript, RTF, Word).  These features and the ease of

      installing and administering gopher servers has led to an

      explosive growth of gopher sites since its initial deployment.  As

      of November 1993, there were over 2200 known servers.



      World Wide Web relies on hypertext; formatted documents are

      displayed, and hypertext links within the document can be selected

      to travel from the current document to another.  W3 allows a user

      to annotate documents (using hypertext links), provides gateways

      to other services, and has multimedia support (for example, on

      appropriate hardware platforms it can intermix text and images in

      a displayed document).  There is a range of free W3 clients,

      supporting many environments.  World Wide Web was originally

      developed at CERN for the High Energy Physics Community.



      Gopher and WWW share a maintenance problem in that there is no

      automated way to update links to other documents when those

      documents are moved or removed.













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   Directory Services (WHOIS, X.500)



      Directory Service tools are intended to provide a lookup service

      for locating information about users (often referred to as White

      Pages), or services and service providers (Yellow Pages).  For

      example, a White Pages service might be used to locate an

      electronic mail address, given a name and organization, while a

      Yellow Pages service could be used to locate an online library

      catalog or file archive site.



      One of the first directory services deployed on the Internet was

      WHOIS, a simple White Pages service created to track key network

      contacts for the early DARPA-sponsored incarnation of the

      Internet.  A number of sites currently operate WHOIS servers,

      based on a range of extensions and enhancements to the original

      model.  WHOIS enjoys the advantages of simplicity and the presence

      of WHOIS client software on a preponderance of Internet-connected

      hosts.  Work is underway on a more powerful protocol, known as

      WHOIS++, which is backwards-compatible with WHOIS.



      The X.500 Directory Service is a much more ambitious Directory

      project that has been under development for a number of years

      under the aegis of ISO/OSI.  Implementations, concerned primarily

      with White pages services, are available in the public domain and

      from commercial sources.  There are LDAP based X.500 clients

      available for most major platforms, as well as a LDAP based gopher

      gateway to X.500.



      Despite years of effort, there is still no single White Pages

      Directory Service for the entire Internet; Yellow Pages services

      remain even less well developed and deployed.  The cost of setting

      up the service is one obstacle; maintaining the required databases

      is even more daunting.



   Indexing Services (archie, Veronica, online library catalogs)



      There are several Internet-based projects that build indexed

      catalogs of information to facilitate searching and retrieval.

      The first such services provided network access to library card

      catalogs, with more recent projects indexing network-based

      information.



   archie:



      The archie service began as a simple project to catalog the

      contents of hundreds of ftp-accessible online file archives.  The

      archie service gathers location information, name, and other

      details describing such files and creates an index database.







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      Users can contact an archie server and search this database for

      files they require.



      The archie service is accessible through a range of access

      methods, including telnet, stand-alone client programs running on

      a user's own machine, gopher, WWW, or via electronic mail.  The

      initial implementation of archie tracks over 2,100,000 filenames

      on over 1,200 sites around the world (as of November 1993).  There

      are about 30 (geographically distributed) archie servers.  Both

      commercial and freely available versions of the archie client

      software are available.



      Work continues on extending the archie service to provide

      additional types of information.  The latest version is being used

      to provide a prototype Yellow Pages service and directories of

      online library catalogs and electronic mailing lists.



   Veronica:



      Veronica arose as an attempt to do for the world of Gopher what

      archie did for the world of ftp.  A central server periodically

      scans the complete menu hierarchies of Gopher servers appearing on

      an ever-expanding list (over 2000 sites as of November 1993).  The

      resulting index is provided by a veronica server and can be

      accessed by any gopher client.



   Online library catalogs:



      A large number of libraries make their computerized library

      catalogs available over the Internet.  Most are available through

      telnet sessions in which the user connects to a specific address

      and logs in using a specific login name.  Some are also available

      through other tools, such as Gopher.



   Text-based Indexing Services (WAIS)



   WAIS:



      Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) is a system for indexing and

      serving information in a network-based environment.  It is

      distinct from indexing tools such as archie and veronica in that

      it is used to index text-based target documents on a server, as

      well as descriptions of the contents of a server.



      A WAIS server allows the administrator to set up an index of the

      documents (or resources) to be published.  The user employs a WAIS

      client to attach to a particular WAIS server, and specifies a

      search pattern which is matched against the server's index.  In







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      early WAIS clients, searches are specified as simple natural-

      language queries; common ("stop") words are removed, and Boolean

      "ORs" are implicitly added between the remaining list of words.

      Matching documents are rank-ordered according to a simple

      statistical weighting scheme which attempts to indicate likely

      relevance.  The user may choose to view selected documents, or

      further refine the search.  The results of one search may be used

      to successively refine future searches ("relevance feedback").

      Gopher clients can also access WAIS servers via a transparent

      gateway.



      Both freely available and commercial versions of WAIS servers and

      clients are available.  Current work is attempting to add Boolean

      expressions and proximity and field specifications to queries.



      There are currently (as of November 1993) some 500 registered WAIS

      databases with an estimated 2000 additional databases that are not

      yet registered.  There are approximately another 100 commercial

      WAIS databases.



6.  NIR Tools



   This section contains detailed information about the various NIR

   Tools.  It is ordered alphabetically.



 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=



 ALEX



 Date template updated or checked:  19th March, 1994

 By: Name:             Vincent Cate

     Email address:    [e-mail]



 ----------------------------------------------------------------------



 NIR Tool Name:      Alex



 Brief Description of Tool:



   OVERVIEW:



      The Alex filesystem provides users and applications transparent

      read access to files in anonymous FTP sites on the Internet.

      Today there are thousands of anonymous FTP sites with a total of a

      few millions of files and roughly a terabyte of data.  The

      standard approach to accessing these files involves logging in to

      the remote machine.  This means that an application can not access

      remote files like local files.  This also means that users do not







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      have any of their aliases or local tools available.  Users who

      want to use an application on a remote file first have to manually

      make a local copy of the file.  There is no mechanism for

      automatically updating this local copy when the remote file

      changes.  The users must keep track of where they get their files

      from and check to see if there are updates, and then fetch these.

      In this approach many different users at the same site may have

      made copies of the same remote file each using up disk space for

      the same data.



      Alex addresses the problems with the existing approach while

      remaining within the existing FTP protocol so that the large

      collection of currently available files can be used.  To get

      reasonable performance long term file caching is used.  Thus

      consistency is an issue.  Traditional solutions to the cache

      consistency problem do not work in the Internet FTP domain:

      callbacks are not an option as the FTP protocol has no provisions

      for this and polling over the Internet is slow.  Therefore, Alex

      relaxes file cache consistency semantics, on a per file basis, and

      uses special caching algorithms that take into account the

      properties of the files and of the network to allow a simple

      stateless filesystem to scale to the size of the Internet.



   USER'S VIEW:



      To a user or application, Alex is just a normal filesystem.  Any

      command that works on local files will work on Alex files.  Since

      Alex is a real filesystem, nothing needs to be recompiled and no

      libraries are changed.  Thus, users can apply all of their

      existing skills and tools for using files.



      The user sees a filesystem with a hierarchical name space.  At the

      top level (/alex) there are top-level Internet domains like "edu",

      "com", "uk", and "jp".  Each component of the hostname becomes a

      directory name. Then the remote path is added at the end.  If the

      user does a "ls /alex/edu/berkeley" he sees some machine names

      such as "ucbvax" and "sprite" and some directories on

      berkeley.edu.  From the "ls" it is not clear what is where.  The

      user may or may not be aware of host boundaries.



   INFORMATION PROVIDER'S VIEW:



      Alex is implemented as a user level NFS server.  NFS was chosen

      because it makes it easy to add Alex to a wide range of machines.

      Most machines can simply use the mount command.













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      The model of usage is that there is one Alex server running at

      each institution (though this is not required in any way).  Users

      mount the local server which caches files for users at that site.



      Any information put into any anonymous FTP site becomes available

      via Alex.



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 Primary Contact(s):



  Name:                 Vincent Cate



  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Postal Address:       School of Computer Science

                        5000 Forbes Ave.

                        Pittsburgh PA, 15213



  Telephone:            [phone]



  Fax:                  [phone]



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 Help Line:



  At this time Alex is a one person project (Vince).



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 Related Working Groups:



  Maybe the FTP working group.



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 Sponsoring Organization / Funding source:



  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Information Science and

  Technology Office, under the title "Research on Parallel Computing,"

  ARPA Order No.  7330.  Work furnished in connection with this research

  is provided under prime contract MDA972-90-C-0035 issued by DARPA/CMO

  to Carnegie Mellon University.  Vincent Cate is supported by an "Intel

  foundation graduate fellowship".



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 Mailing Lists:



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]





  Description:          alex-servers is for people setting up an Alex

                        fileserver.



  Archive:              alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.13)



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 News groups:



  None.



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 Protocols:



  What is supported:   Any machine that can NFS mount a fileserver.



  What it runs over:   Unix machine and FTP



  Other NIR tools this interworks with:



   Uses FTP sites.



   WAIS can be used to index files in Alex

    (this was done for ftpable-readmes and cs-techreports WAIS servers)



      New versions of archie can output Alex paths.



 Future plans:         Graduate from CMU.



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 Servers:



  Date completed or updated:    19 March 1994

  By: Name:                     Vincent Cate



  Platform:                     UNIX



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Vincent Cate







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  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Server software available from:  alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu



  Location of more information:

   No other place to go to.



  Latest version number:

   New versions all the time.



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   This software is known to still contain bugs.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   200.



  General comments:

   You can use lpr, make, grep, more, etc. on files around the world.



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 Clients:



  You just do an NFS mount of the server.  No client software

  is needed.



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 Demonstration sites:



  Site name:   alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu



  Access details - do the following as root:

   mkdir /alex

   mount -o timeo=30,retrans=300,soft,intr alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu:/ /alex



  Example use:

   ln -s /alex/edu/cs/cmu/sp/alex/links alexlinks

   cd alexlinks

   ls

   cd cs-tr

   cd ls

   cd purdue

   ls

   lpr TR758.PS











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  If you like Alex and want to use it regularly please find, or set up,

  an Alex fileserver at/near your site.



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 Documentation:



  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/www/alex.html

  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/intro.ps

  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/NIR.Tool

  ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/doc/alex.post



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 Bibliography:



  @InProceedings{cate:alex,

  author =      "Vincent Cate",

  title =       "Alex - a Global Filesystem",

  booktitle =   "Proceedings of the Usenix File Systems Workshop",

  year =        1992,

  pages =       "1--11",

  month =       may,

  place =       "Ann Arbor, MI",

  keyword =     "distributed file system, wide-area file system"



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 Other Information:



  FTP to alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu and "cd to doc".  Get the "README" or

  anything else there.  A current version of this document may be there

  and called "NIR.Tool".  In Alex this file is named

  "/alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc/NIR.Tool".



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 ARCHIE



 Date template updated or checked:       1 March, 1994

 By: Name:                               Peter Deutsch

     Email address:                      [e-mail]



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 NIR Tool Name:                  archie



 Brief Description of Tool:



   The archie system is a tool for gathering, indexing and serving

   information from around the Internet.  The current version serves a

   collection of filenames found at anonymous FTP sites, as well as a

   smaller collection of text descriptions for software, data and other

   information found at anonymous FTP archives.  Additional databases

   are under development.



   User's View:



      Users run a client program to connect to an archie server and

      issue search commands to find information in an archie database.

      In the case of an anonymous FTP filename, this information can

      then be used to fetch the file directly from the archive site

      using the `ftp' command.  To the user, archie could be seen as a

      `secondary source' of information which, because of the high cost

      of locating and serving, would not otherwise be available.



      The user searches the archie databases through either a telnet

      session to a machine running an archie server, or by using a

      stand-alone client program (which uses the Prospero protocol for

      sending and receiving requests).  There is also an email interface

      which allows users to send and receive search requests via

      electronic mail.



      Freely available archie clients exist for most operating systems

      and can be fetched using anonymous FTP from most of the current

      archie servers.  There are also gateways to the archie system from

      many other NIR tools, including Gopher, WAIS and WWW.  An X.500

      interface to archie is currently under development.



   Information Provider's View:



      There are two types of information providers who would be

      interested in archie.  Primary information providers are

      interested in having a summary of the information provided by

      their service tracked by an archie server.  Secondary service







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      providers, or those sites wishing to provide a "value-added"

      service for the Internet can elect to run an archie server at

      their site to provide a useful service to users, to raise the

      profile of their institution on the Internet, or to provide market

      differentiation (for commercial service providers).



      The archie system is of particular utility serving information

      where there are many sites to be searched and/or where the cost of

      searching each site is high.



      For example, there are currently over 1,200 anonymous FTP sites on

      the Internet, and the number continues to grow.  Searching for a

      specific filename at a single site may involve scanning hundreds,

      or even thousands of filenames.  Thus, most operators of anonymous

      FTP archives welcome the fact that archie indexes and serves the

      names of all files available from each site tracked.



   Information Types Supported:



      The archie system allows the gathering and serving of arbitrary

      information types, although the current system serves only

      freeform text and a dedicated text format for filename listings.

      Internally, the archie system now supports a WAIS search engine

      and frontends for Gopher, WWW and WHOIS++ for accessing archie

      information through Gopher clients is now being tested.

      Additional collections of information to be served by the archie

      software will be announced.



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 Primary Contact(s):



  Name:                   Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc.



  Email address:          [e-mail]



  Postal  Address:        Bunyip Information Systems Inc.,

                          310 St-Catherine St. West, suite 202,

                          Montreal, QC

                          CANADA H2X 2A1



  Telephone:              [phone]

  Fax:                    [phone]



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 Help Line:       for archie server system and telnet client









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  Name:           Archie Group, Bunyip Information Systems Inc.



  Email address:  [e-mail]



  Telephone:      [phone]





  Level of support offered:

                  o commercial support for server

                   (primarily for systems maintainers)



                  o voluntary helpdesk support for freeware clients



                  o volunteer helpdesk support for Internet information

                   gathering tools in general



  Hours available:        - server system:

                           email:                24 hour support

                           phone support:        9-5 EST



                         - helpdesk consultation: as time permits



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 Related Working Groups:



  IETF, IIIR, WNILS, URI.



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 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:



  Bunyip Information Systems Inc.



  Funded by licensing of archie software and development contracts from

  sponsors.  Additional information services based upon this software

  are now being tested.



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 Mailing Lists:



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:









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   This mailing list is for people interested in the archie project and

   its future developments.  Announcements of upgrades, new services,

   etc. are made to this list.



  Archive:              none



                        -------------------



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:



   This mailing list is for people who operate and maintain archie

   servers.  Announcements of bug fixes, new releases and discussion of

   new features are carried out on this list.



  Archive:

   "archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/archie-maint"



                        -------------------



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:



   This mailing list is for people who are involved in the Internet

   Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group of the IETF.  This group was

   involved in standardizing the encoding of information at anonymous

   FTP archives and thus is of interest to operators and users of the

   archie system.  It came to completion in November, 1992 and produced

   two documents which have been presented to the IETF as informational

   RFCs.



  Archive:              "archives.cc.mcgill.ca:/pub/mailing-lists/iafa"



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 News groups:



  Name:                 comp.archives.admin















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  Description:



  This newsgroup is for operators and maintainers of Internet archives.

  Announcements and discussions of issues related to archie are

  presented here, as well as discussions of more general issues

  relating to archiving and Internet services.



  Archive:              not known



                        -------------------



  Name:                 alt.internet.services



  Description:



  This newsgroup is for people interested in Internet-related services,

  with a focus at the user level.  Announcements and discussions of

  issues related to archie are presented here, as well as discussions

  of more general issues relating to Internet services.



  Archive:              not known



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   Protocols:



   What is supported:



      The current archie system clients use the Prospero protocol for

      communication with the search engine on the archie server.  Freely

      available clients are available which include source to perform

      this communication for those wishing to implement additional

      clients.



      The archie server is capable of building arbitrary databases,

      using arbitrary search and access engines and the current release

      ships with the public domain implementation of WAIS.  We expect

      future archie servers to serve information using this protocol.

      The current server system assumes the TCP/IP protocol suite is

      available, and in particular the ftp protocol for data gathering.



      The archie system can be accessed through systems operating the

      Gopher, WAIS and WWW (HDDL) protocols.  A gateway from the X.500

      system is under development.















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   What it runs over:



      The Prospero protocol implementation runs over its own

      implementation of a reliable datagram protocol based upon UDP.

      Data gathering runs over the TCP/IP protocol suite.



   Other NIR tools this interworks with:



      Prospero, Gopher, WAIS, WWW.



   Future plans:



      The archie system became a commercial product in October, 1992,

      marketed by Bunyip Information Systems Inc.  The company plans to

      market additional data gathering modules to allow the server code

      to build additional types of databases.  Work is also underway to

      integrate extensions to WHOIS to allow the building and

      maintaining of White Pages (names) directories.  The company is

      also working on other Internet information tools that will work

      with the archie system.



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 Servers:



  Date completed or updated:    1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                     Peter Deutsch

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                 Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1 or later.

                            IBM RS6000 running AIX version 3.2 or later.

                            for additional UNIX platforms, contact

                            Bunyip Information Systems details.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Alan Emtage

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Server software available from:

   Bunyip Information Systems Inc.

   email:  [e-mail]



  Location of more information:



  Additional information on the archie product line is available from

  the anonymous ftp archives on the various archie server sites. Try

  "archie.ans.net", "archie.sura.net", "archie.au", etc.







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  Latest version number:          archie 3.1



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This is the  commercial inmplementation of the archie system,

  replacing a version done as a Masters project at McGill University

  during the period 1990-1992.  It comes with an archie telnet client

  that offers a number of minor improvements over earlier versions.

  Additional releases, with a number of additional improvements, are

  planned in the coming months.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Currently about 27 (not all are publicly available)



  General comments:



  Most users access archie through a freeware or public domain client

  program.  These are available from most archie servers via anonymous

  FTP.  Check out the archie directory on any of the publicly available

  archie servers or the banner message when logging into any of the

  archie telnet clients for more details.



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 Clients:



  Date completed or updated:    1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                     Peter Deutsch

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     command line shell, written in C. Works

                                with both UNIX and MSDOS/OS2 shells.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Brendan Kehoe

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    not known



  Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major

                                  Internet archives. Look for filename

                                  "c-archie-1.3.2.tar.Z".



  Location of more information:   Packaged with software.



  Latest version number:          1.3.2













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  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie

  server system, using the Prospero protocol.  Written in C, it has

  been ported to MSDOS and OS2.



  General comments:



  This program should not be confused with the archie system telnet

  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself.



  Future plans:  Not known



                        -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                     Peter Deutsch

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     command line shell, written in Perl.

                                Works with both UNIX and MSDOS/OS2

                                shells.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Khun Yee Fung

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    not known



  Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major

                                  Internet archives. Look for filename

                                  "perl-archie-3.8.tar.Z".





  Location of more information:   Packaged with software.



  Latest version number:          3.8



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie

  server system, using the Prospero protocol.  Written in Perl.



  General comments:



  This program should not be confused with the archie system telnet

  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself.



  Future plans:  Not known







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                        -------------------



  Date completed or updated:      1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch

  Email address:                  [e-mail]



  Platform:                       archie client program for VMS systems.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                           Brendan Kehoe

  Email address:                  [e-mail]

  Telephone:                      not known



  Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major

                                  Internet archives. Look for filename

                                  "archie-vms.com".



  Location of more information:   Packaged with software.



  Latest version number:          not known.



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This program provides a simple command line interface to the archie

  server system for users of VMS.



  General comments:



  This program should not be confused with the archie system telnet

  interface, which is a program that runs on the archie server itself.



  Future plans:  Not known



                        -------------------



  Date completed or updated:      1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch

  Email address:                  [e-mail]



  Platform:                       Xwindows client (X11R4)



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                           George Ferguson

  Email address:                  [e-mail]

  Telephone:                      not known



  Client software available from: cs.rochester.edu, most archie server

                                  hosts and major Internet archives.







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                                  Look for file "xarchie-1.3.tar.Z".



  Location of more information:   Packaged with software.



  Latest version number:          xarchie-1.3



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This program provides an Xwindows client that allows users to search

  the archie anonymous FTP database.  Also included is the capability of

  fetching files (using ftp).



  General comments:               none.



  Future plans:  Not known



                        -------------------



  Date completed or updated:      1 November, 1993

  By: Name:                       Peter Deutsch

  Email address:                  [e-mail]



  Platform:                       NeXTStep client.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                          Scott Stark

  Email address:                 [e-mail]

  Telephone:                     not known



  Client software available from: most archie server hosts and major

                                  Internet archives. Look for file

                                  "NeXTArchie.tar.Z".



  Location of more information:   Packaged with software.



  Latest version number:



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  This program provides a NeXTStep client that allows users to search

  the archie anonymous FTP database.  Also included is the capability

  of fetching files (using ftp).



  General comments:               none.



  Future plans:  Not known



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 Demonstration sites:



  Site name:      any one of:



    archie.rutgers.edu   128.6.18.15     (Rutgers University)

    archie.unl.edu       129.93.1.14     (University of Nebraska in

                                          Lincoln)

    archie.sura.net      128.167.254.179 (SURAnet archie server)

    archie.ans.net       147.225.1.2     (ANS archie server)

    archie.au            139.130.4.6     (Australian server)

    archie.funet.fi      128.214.6.100   (European server in Finland)

    archie.doc.ic.ac.uk  146.169.11.3    (UK/England server)

    archie.cs.huji.ac.il 132.65.6.15     (Israel server)

    archie.wide.ad.jp    133.4.3.6       (Japanese server)



  Client software should be supported at all of these sites.

  Additional sites are available. Use the "sites" command in the archie

  telnet interface at any of the above sites for a more complete lists.



  Access details:

                - telnet to any of the above sites

                - login as user `archie' (no password is required)

                - type `help' at the prompt to get started.



  Note:  Some people forget and use ftp in place of telnet. This will

         not work. The hint that this is being done is that they claim

         that a password is needed, not that the site can't be found.



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 Documentation:



  Document Title:         What is archie

  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net

  Site:                   archie.ans.net

  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/whatis.archie"

  Description:            Brief overview of the archie system.



  Document Title:         archie man pages

  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net

  Site:                   archie.ans.net

  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/archie.man.*"

  Description:            Manual pages for the archie system telnet

                          interface in various formats (raw ASCII,

                          nroff, compressed, etc.). This document also

                          explains the various search options and other

                          features, so is of use to users of the other

                          archie client programs.







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  Document Title:         What's New in 3.0

  Location details:       anonymous FTP from archie.ans.net

  Site:                   archie.ans.net

  Full file name:         "pub/archie/doc/whats.new"

  Description:            Description of the changes to archie for the

                          first commercial release



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 Bibliography:            none



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 Other Information:       none





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 GOPHER



 Date template updated or checked:  14 March 1994

 By: Name:   Mark P. McCahill

     Email address:   [e-mail]



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 NIR Tool Name:  Internet Gopher



 Brief Description of Tool:



   The Internet Gopher protocol is a client/distributed-server document

   search and retrieval protocol originally developed at the University

   of Minnesota.  Gopher was originally created as a fast, simple,

   distributed, campus-wide information search and retrieval system;

   ease of use and implementation has made Gopher increasingly popular

   on the Internet.  Since its original release, many folks on the

   Internet have contributed to its growth, submitting patches, servers,

   clients, and linking their local servers into the worldwide network

   of Gopher servers.  Gateways exist to seamlessly access a variety of

   non-Gopher services such as ftp, WAIS, USENET news, Archie, Z39.50

   (1992 rev), X.500 directories, Sybase and Oracle SQL servers, etc.

   In addition, an "archie for gopherspace" called Veronica (very easy

   rodent-oriented net-wide index to computerized archives) has been

   developed at the University of Nevada.  Veronica makes it easy to

   search for items in gopherspace by title.



   The gopher protocol is often described as "fiercely simple"; it is

   connectionless (stateless), and uses TCP reliable streams.  A client

   connects to a server using TCP, and sends a one-line text "selector

   string".  The server responds by returning the item (a file, a

   directory listing, or a link to some other service) corresponding to

   the selector string and immediately closing the connection.  Items in

   directory listings are returned as a series of lines terminated by

   carriage-return line-feed.  Each item (line) is defined by a one-

   character tag to specify the item type, a display string or item-name

   that the client should display to the user, and a number of tab

   delimited fields to specify the selector string, host domain name and

   port number.  Because of its simple and connectionless nature, gopher

   servers make very minimal demands on their host machines and gopher

   clients are extremely easy to implement.



   The users view the Gopher world as a series of networked hierarchical

   directories much like a familiar filesystem.  However, the links

   define a graph rather than a simple rooted tree.  Links in the Gopher

   graph may define services other than simple files or directories;

   these include cso (qi) servers, telnet sessions, links to other







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   gopher servers, and links to gateway servers.



   The information provider's simplest view is that files and

   directories below a certain root directory on their machine are all

   visible and available for retrieval by gopher clients.  More features

   like long names, item types, links, and gateway services are

   available to the more sophisticated information provider.



   Servers and clients run on most popular hardware, including Macs,

   UNIX boxes, PC-DOS boxes.  The Internet Gopher name is copyright (c)

   1991-1992 by the University of Minnesota.  The Internet Gopher

   protocol is described in an informational RFC (1436) available at

   better RFC archives everywhere.  Extensions to the base gopher

   protocol allow for associating meta-information with gopher items,

   alternate views of documents (i.e., text, postscript, rtf, etc.) and

   electronic forms.  Collectively, these extensions are referred to as

   Gopher+.  Gopher+ is upward compatible with the orginal gopher

   protocol.  The gopher software may be retrieved from numerous Gopher

   or FTP archive sites, including the University of Minnesota Gopher

   server, the Info-Mac Archive Gopher server, and by anonymous FTP from

   boombox.micro.umn.edu and sumex-aim.stanford.edu. As of December

   1993, about 1/3 of the approximately 4800 Gopher servers on the

   internet support Gopher+.



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 Primary Contact(s):



  Name:                 The Internet Gopher Development Team



  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Postal Address:       Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center

                        152 Shepherd Labs

                        100 Union Street SE.

                        University of Minnesota

                        Minneapolis, MN 55455



  Telephone:            [phone]



  Fax:                  [phone]



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 Help Line:



  Name:                 Microcomputer HelpLine;

                        ask for The Internet Gopher Development Team







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  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Telephone:            USA: 612 MA MICRO ([phone])

                        Helpline is for general support at the U of M.



  Level of support offered:     all users



  Hours available:      Phone Helpline 9-4 weekdays.



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 Related Working Groups:



 ----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:



  The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.



 ----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Mailing Lists:



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:          News and views of all things gopher. Tends to

                        be a high volume mailing list and technically

                        oriented.



  Archive:              Via Gopher: University of Minnesota Gopher

                        Information About Gopher



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:          A low-volume mailing list of announcements of

                        new software and servers.



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 News groups:



  Name:                 comp.infosystems.gopher



  Description:          Discussion of all things gopher.







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  Archive:              Available via gopher client; connect to the

                        gopher server at gopher.tc.umn.edu port 70,

                        look in the "Information About Gopher" section.



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 Protocols:



  What is supported:    Internet Gopher



  What it runs over:    Anything you can run TCP/IP over.



  Other NIR tools this interworks with:



                        Z39.50 WAIS variant via WAIS gateway

                        FTP via FTP gateway

                        archie/Prospero via an archie gateway

                        veronica (an archie for gopherspace)

                        NNTP via NNTP gateway

                        Finger (subset of gopher)

                        X.500 via X.500 gateway

                        Z39.50 1992 revision variant via Z39.50 gateway

                        Oracle and Sybase SQL servers via SQL gateway

                        CSO (Ph/Qi) online phone books



  Future plans:         New user interace metaphor on PowerPC and

                        Pentium-based clients.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Servers:



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     UNIX.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu







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                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (things change fast;

                                 please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Server, index server for WAIS based indices and for NeXT

   native indexing, tools, gateway code.  Supports Gopher+.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Over 3000.



  General comments:

   The defacto standard workhorse Gopher server.

   Paul Lindner is the architect and keeper of this server.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Macintosh.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

                                Macintosh Gopher Server and tools,

                                supports Gopher+.









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  Approximate number of such servers in use:

                                Current estimates between 300 and 400.



  General comments:

   Runs on any Macintosh with 1MB memory or more.

   Requires MacTCP.  Can be configured to use Apple Computer's AppleSearch

   full-text search software as a Gopher-accessible search engine.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     PC-DOS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Additional contacts:

  Name:                         Dennis Sherman

  Email address:                [e-mail]



  Name:                         Foteos Macrides

  Email address:                [e-mail]



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        0.91b



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

                                Basic Gopher server for PC-DOS boxes.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

                                Current estimates between 25 and 75.













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  General comments:

   Written by Chris McNeil <[e-mail]>, based on Phil Karns net

   package.  The U of M Gopher team forwards difficult problems to

   Chris.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VMS



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         J. Lance Wilkinson

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/VMS/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        1.2 VMS-0



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Basic VMS Server, shares some code with UNIX server.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   35-40 servers in use.



  General comments:

   The VMS server was written and is maintained by J. Lance Wilkinson,

   Foteos Macrides, Bruce Tanner and others on the

   [e-mail] mailing list.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VM/CMS







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  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Rick Troth

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/

                                Brazos.IS.Rice.EDU:/pub/vmcms/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        2.4



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher server for IBM VM/CMS installations.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Unknown.



  General comments:

   This server was written and is maintained by Rick Troth.

   This server is commonly referred to as the Rice VM/CMS server.

   There is also another VM/CMS server: the Vienna VM/CMS server.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VM/CMS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Gerhard Gonter

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/











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  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        2.00.00



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher server for IBM VM/CMS installations.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Unknown.



  General comments:

   This server was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.

   This server is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS server.

   There is also another VM/CMS server: the Rice VM/CMS server.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     MVS



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Steve Bacher

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Server software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        2.1



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher server for IBM MVS installations.



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Unknown.



  General comments:

   This server was written and is maintained by Steve Bacher.







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                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Unix veronica server



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Steve Foster

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Server software available from:

   Via FTP:                     veronica.scs.unr.edu:/veronica



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   veronica server software



  Approximate number of such servers in use:

   Unknown.



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Steve Foster at the

   University of Nevada.



  Future plans: Additional support for searching on Gopher+ attributes



 ----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Clients:



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Macintosh



  Primary Contact

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]









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  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                 /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients.  Requires MacTCP.



  General comments:

   Macintosh TurboGopher is as of this writing, the fastest

   Gopher client available for the Mac.  Written by the

   Minnesota Gopher Development Team.  Supports Gopher+.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Macintosh



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Don Gilbert, Biology, Indiana

                                University - Bloomington

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   Indiana University Gopher Server

                                IUBio Software+Data/GopherApp,

                                Mac Gopher client

  Via FTP:                      ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/gopher/

                                                     gopherapp/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients.  Requires MacTCP.







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  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Don Gilbert.  Supports Gopher+.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Macintosh



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         "Jonzy"

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   gopher.cc.utah.edu in Testing directory



  Via FTP:                      ftp.cc.utah.edu:/pub/gopher/Macintosh/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients.  Requires MacTCP.

   Has a browser style interface.

   Uses customized Telnet application.



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by "Jonzy".



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     UNIX (curses/EMACS based client)



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team







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  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   The UNIX curses-based client.



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Paul Lindner.  Supports Gopher+.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     UNIX (simple client does not use CURSES)



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Sean Fuller

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        0.3



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   sgopher is a simple gopher client for inetd/batch/online; it does not







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   require much of the terminal other than it be 80X24 characters.  It

   can be run stand alone or it can be launched from inetd.  It doesn't

   use termcap or curses.  Sgopher outputs the \r\n pair at the end of

   line and requires a <return> after each command to support more

   terminal types.



  General comments:

   Runs on VMS, IRIX, Ultrix, AIX, Solaris 2.x, Solaris 1.x



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Allan Tuchman

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Makes use of the X interface.



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Allan Tuchman.



  Future plans:  Gopher+ support planned for the future.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill







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      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Andrew Scherpbier

  Email address:                [e-mail]

                                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Makes use of the X interface... displays a way cool chewing gopher

   icon while information is being downloaded.



  General comments:

   XView based gopher client.



  Future plans:  Gopher+ support.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     NeXT: NeXTstep client



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution







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  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Makes full use of the NeXT interface.



  General comments:

   Initial version written by Max Tardiveau.

   Now maintained by Paul Lindner.



  Future plans:



                       -------------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     DOS TurboVision w/Clarkson packet

                                drivers



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Character-based graphics and windows under DOS. Uses either Clarkson

   Packet drivers (CRWYN packet drivers) and a built-in TCP/IP protocol

   stack or Ftp, Inc.'s protocol stack (PC/TCP).









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  General comments:

   Gopher+ support.



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VMS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Mark Van Overbeke

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        0.6



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  General comments:

   The VMS client was written and is maintained by Mark Van Overbeke.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VMS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]









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  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        1.12



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Identical to Unix gopher1.12. Works on a VMS 5.5-2 system running

   MultiNet 3.1B.  UCX and Wollongong are also supported.



  General comments:

   A port of the University of Minnesota Unix client to VMS.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VM/CMS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Rick Troth

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:



  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:







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   Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.



  General comments:

   This client was written and is maintained by Rick Troth.

   This client is commonly referred to as the Rice VM/CMS client.

   There is also another VM/CMS client: the Vienna VM/CMS client.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     VM/CMS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Gerhard Gonter

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu

                                /pub/gopher/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.



  General comments:

   This client was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.

   This client is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS client.

   There is also another VM/CMS client: the  Rice VM/CMS client.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill







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      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     DOS with PC/TCP.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Steven E. Newton

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via FTP:                      oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:/public/dos/misc/



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher client for DOS with PC/TCP



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Steven E. Newton



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     DOS with PC-NFS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Stan Barber

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

   Via FTP:                     bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/gopher.exe



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher client for DOS with PC-NFS







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  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Stan Barber



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Jeremy T. James

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via FTP:                      lennon.itn.med.umich.edu:pub/gopher



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Jeremy T. James.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Windows 3.1 with Winsock or PC/NFS.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Martyn Hampson

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:







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  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:                      lister.cc.ic.ac.uk

                                /pub/wingopher



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:        (please check software distribution)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher client for Windows; uses either Winsock DLL or PC/NFS network

   interface.



  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Martyn Hampson.  Gopher+ support.



  Future plans:



                         -------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Windows with Winsock and ToolBook.



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Kevin Gamiel

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:



  Client software available from:

  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher

                                Information About Gopher

                                Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP:           sunsite.unc.edu

                     /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/gophbook.zip



  Location of more information:

   As above.



  Latest version number:         1.0



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:

   Gopher client for Windows; uses Asymetrix's ToolBook to paint the

   screen and speaks to the network via a Winsock DLL.







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  General comments:

   Written and maintained by Kevin Gamiel



  Future plans:



                     ------------------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Air Gopher commercial client for windows



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         David Pool, Spry Software, Inc.

  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Client software available from:



  Location of more information:



  Latest version number:



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  General Comments:



  Future plans:

   Gopher+ support planned.



                     ------------------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994

  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     Win Gopher



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Bill Easton, Notis, Inc.

  Telephone:                    [phone]



  Client software available from:



  Location of more information:



  Latest version number:







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  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  General Comments:

   Requires Winsock.  Supports gopher.



  Future plans:

   Gopher+ support planned.



                     ------------------------------



  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994



  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill

      Email address:            [e-mail]



  Platform:                     GINA



  Primary Contact:

  Name:                         Mark Resmer, California Technology

                                Project

  Email address:                [e-mail]



  Client software available from:



  Location of more information:



  Latest version number:



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  General Comments:

   Macintosh and windows clients include netnews, email.



  Future plans:



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Demonstration sites:



  List of sites which are willing to act as demonstration

  sites for this application.



          site name              ip address   login as   serving 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

     info.anu.edu.au           150.203.84.20   info      Australia







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     gopher.chalmers.se        129.16.221.40   gopher    Sweden

     tolten.puc.cl             146.155.1.16    gopher    South America



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Documentation:



  Title:  (1) Gopher Protocol and

          (2) Gopher+ Proposed Extensions

  Location details:

       Via Gopher: U of M Gopher

                 Information About Gopher

                      Gopher Software Distribution

  Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu

              /pub/gopher/



  Title: RFC 1436   The Internet Gopher Protocol

                    (a distributed document search and retrieval

                    protocol)

  Via FTP: nic.ddn.mil

              /rfc/rfc1436.txt



 ----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Bibliography:



  The Whole Internet, Ed Kroll, O'Reilly, 1992



  The Internet Gopher, "ConneXions", July 1992, Interop.



  Exploring Internet GopherSpace "The Internet Society News", v1n2 1992



  The Internet Gopher Protocol, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third

      IETF, CNRI, Section 5.3



  Internet Gopher, Proceedings of Canadian Networking '92



  The Internet Gopher, INTERNET: Getting Started, SRI

      International, Section 10.5.5



  Tools help Internet users discover on-line treasures, Computerworld,

      July 20, 1992



  TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly.



  Balakrishan, B. (Oct 1992) "SPIGopher: Making SPIRES databases

     accessible through the Gopher protocol".  SPIRES Fall '92

     Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.







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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Other Information:



 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=





























































































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 HYTELNET



 Date template updated or checked: 28 February, 1994

 By: Name:              Peter Scott

     Email address:     [e-mail]



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 NIR Tool Name: HYTELNET



 Brief Description of Tool:



   HYTELNET is a terminate-and-stay-resident hypertext browser, which

   gives a user full instructions for logging into telnet-accessible

   sites on the Internet i.e., library catalogs, campus-wide information

   systems, bulletin boards, directory services, gophers, etc.  The

   browser does not make remote connections.  A Unix/VMS version, which

   does make remote connections, has been written by Earl Fogel,

   Computing Services, University of Saskatchewan.  Macintosh and Amiga

   versions are also available (see ftp site information below).



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Primary Contact(s):



  Name:                 Peter Scott



  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Postal Address:       324 8th Street East

                        Saskatoon, Sask, Canada S7H 0P5



  Telephone:            [phone]



  Fax:                  [phone]



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Help Line:



  Name:                 Peter Scott



  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Telephone:            [phone]



  Level of support offered:

                        o volunteer







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  Hours available:      8:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m CST



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Related Working Groups:



  None



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:



  None



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Mailing Lists:         HYTELNET Updates Distribution



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       By listowner Peter Scott

                        [e-mail]



  Description:



  To inform members of new versions of the software, and to keep users

  informed of new/changed/defunct Telnet-accessible sites

  To subscribe send e-mail message to [e-mail] with

  no subject, and    sub hytel-l firstname lastname  as the body of the

  message.



  Archive:              None



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 News groups:           bit.listserv.hytel-l



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Protocols:



  What is supported:



  What it runs over:



  Other NIR tools this interworks with:









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  Future plans:         Possible translation into gopher format



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Servers:



   None.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Clients:



  Date completed or updated: 21 December, 1993

  By: Name:                  Peter Scott

      Email address:         [e-mail]



  Platform:                  DOS



  Primary Contact

  Name:                      Peter Scott

  Email address:             [e-mail]

  Telephone:                 [phone]



  Client software available from:



   ftp.usask.ca in

   pub/hytelnet/pc as hytelnXX.zip, where XX = latest version number.

   pub/hytelnet/{amiga,unix,vms,mac}/* for respective versions



  Location of more information: finger [e-mail]



  Latest version number:     6.6 (Issued October 23, 1993)



  Brief Scope and Characteristics:



  General comments:



  Future plans:

   To contine to produce updated versions in current form.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Demonstration sites:



  The Unix/VMS version can be accessed via telnet to access.usask.ca

  (login: hytelnet)



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 Documentation: None



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Bibliography:



  HYTELNET as software for accessing the Internet: a personal

  perspective on the development of HYTELNET.

  Electronic Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring 1992 pp 38-44



  Hypertext...Information at your fingertips.

  In: Designing Information: new roles for librarians.

  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of

  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Other Information:



 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=





























































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 NETFIND



 Date template updated or checked:  1 March, 1994

 By: Name:              Mike Schwartz

     Email address:     [e-mail]



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 NIR Tool Name: Netfind



 Brief Description of Tool:



   Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of

   where the person works, Netfind attempts to locate information about

   the person.  People can be specified by first, last, or login name.

   Their place of work can be described by name and/or the

   city/state/country.



   Netfind provides textual information about people, when it is able to

   locate such information.  It is not a directory in the usual sense of

   the word.  Rather, it searches for people using a number of Internet

   services and heuristics about how to locate user information.

   Because of the techniques it uses, Netfind can locate information

   about more people than any other Internet user directory - over 5

   million people in over 9,000 domains worldwide when last measured.



   You can use the University of Colorado Netfind server by telnet to

   bruno.cs.colorado.edu: login as "netfind" (with no password).  Help

   screens providing more detailed instructions and technical

   information are available there.  There is currently no way for non-

   Internet users to access Netfind (e.g., using an email interface).



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Primary Contact(s):



  Name:                 Mike Schwartz



  Email address:        [e-mail]



  Postal Address:       Department of Computer Science

                        University of Colorado

                        Boulder, CO  80309-0430



  Telephone:            Declined.  (Note: Netfind is currently a

                        volunteer service.  We do not have staff

                        resources to support telephone inquiries.)









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  Fax:                  Declined.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Help Line:



  There are an increasing number of Netfind servers being set up at

  various Network Information Centers (including the U.S. Internic).

  However, since Netfind is provided as a volunteer service at this

  time, there is no help line.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Related Working Groups:



  Gopher, NIR, IIIR, IRTF-RD.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:



  None.  Netfind was originally a research prototype.  It is offered

  as-is, on an unsupported basis.  From time to time the original

  developers make improvements, but it is not currently funded.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Mailing Lists:



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:          mailing list for user changes and updates.



  Archive:              None.



                      ----------------------------



  Address:              [e-mail]



  Administration:       [e-mail]



  Description:          mailing list for sites running Netfind servers.



  Archive:              None.



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 News groups:



  None.



 -----------------------------------------------------------------------



 Protocols:



  What is supported:    NVT ASCII.  At present no formal protocol is

                        used. We are currently implementing a client/

                        server protocol, which will allow better clients

                        and more efficient serveCode: SF, Missing DocID in request