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- From: jml4@cus.cam.ac.uk (John Line)
- Subject: queries: is there a line-mode UNIX client, & xgopher "hanging"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.214829.29574@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge, England
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:48:29 GMT
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- I recently (last Friday) made the UNIX curses and X clients available to
- Computing Service staff here for evaluation (as in, should we be promoting
- use of gopher and maybe setting up a server; you can guess my views since I
- set it up...).
-
- Two queries result from feedback so far:
-
- (1) If we were to provide anonymous client access, it would (probably, for
- "political" reasons) have to give the option of "line-mode" working (no screen
- addressing, input terminated by the RETURN key), since there are still a lot of
- old terminals in use and their owners would be (rightly) upset at being
- excluded from gopher access (especially if we were using it to provide our own
- primary campus information service...). I've seen suggestions here in the past
- that a line-mode client would be useful - but no responses saying "got one" or
- "yes, we'll put it on the wish-list and do it sometime".
-
- Is there any prospect of either the standard curses gopher client learning how
- to cope with really dumb terminals, or a totally separate program providing
- equivalent functionality?
-
- (2) As stated to me (paraphrased) "Using xgopher, I started a search and it
- didn't do anything for a very long time. I couldn't find any way to stop it
- short of killing the process."
-
- Is that true (I'd hit the problem before, but assumed there must be a way...),
- and if so, is there any prospect of a "cancel" button to interrupt xgopher when
- waiting for a connection or a search to complete or any other predictably
- (sometimes-)time-consuming operation? (Version in use is xgopher 1.1, with
- X11R4.)
-
- John
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- John Line - Cambridge University Computing Service, Computer Laboratory,
- New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, ENGLAND.
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