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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 16:18:56 PDT
- From: mmansell@nero.UVic.CA (Mike Mansell)
- Message-ID: <9207222318.AA10784@nero.UVic.CA>
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- Subject: RE: Gopher and Hypertext links
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- There is also a gopher client/server pair with linking capability
- This is available from from me. The only client currently supporting this
- is the Unix XClient, however the Unix curses client will be ready very soon.
- Both the client and server will be uploaded to boombox in the near future
- (when I get some time to organize things). Until then, if you want more
- information, drop me some e-mail at mmansell@nero.UVic.CA
-
- Here's an exerpt from some of our Gopher documentation:
-
- I. Gopher
-
- Gopher is a platform independent information handling and retrevial system.
- Gopher is a server/client system.
-
- I.I The server
-
- The server resides on a networked computer and handles all requests
- from any client on another computer. The server located at the
- University of Victoria is based on the v1.01 release of the Unix server. An
- enhancement has been made by David Manning (dmanning@nero.UVic.CA) to
- provide graphics support (GIF is the only graphics protocal currently
- implemented).
-
- There is a Mac-based server available. However, there are none currently
- operating within the University of Victoria.
-
- I.II The client
-
- The client is a program that connects to the server and sends and receives
- information based on user requests. There are currently clients available
- for all major platforms, including Mac, IBM, NeXT, Sun/Unix and VMS. The
- Sun/Unix client is available for a curses environment and an X window
- environment. The Sun/Unix clients at the University are based on the
- v1.01 release of the curses client and the v1.1 release of the X window
- client. Several enhancements have been made by David Manning and
- Michael Mansell (mmansell@nero.UVic.CA) to the X window client. These
- enhancements provide graphics support (GIF only) and cross-referencing.
- A completely new client is being written to interact with the multimedia
- hypertext project currently in progress. This client is command-line
- driven to provide a silent and automatic mechanism to access the gopher
- databases.
-
- Michael C. Mansell
- mmansell@nero.UVic.CA
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- University of Victoria
-