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- From: lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: Weather service on gopher:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182125.4320@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Keywords: weather gopher downwind
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- Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- References: <1992Nov17.204601.25657@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:21:25 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In <1992Nov17.204601.25657@cs.cornell.edu> raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) writes:
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-
- >I am trying to access the weather server with the following in my
- >.gopherrc:
- >#
- >Type=1
- >Name=interactive weather service (from u of michigan)
- >Path=
- >Host=downwind.sprl.umich.edu
- >Port=3000
-
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- >The gopher client hangs, even though telnet to the same host and port
- >works immediately:
-
- >I would like to use gopher instead of regular telnet because I am
- >hoping that gopher will retrieve the weather forecast as a document
- >similar to what the gopher interface to the geographic server on
- >martini does.
-
- >Does anyone have something like this working for the weather server?
-
- Sorry, this won't work. The service on downwind is interactive,
- gopher is basically a query mechanism, it sends the query and it's
- done.
-
- You can put the following on your gopher-server if you're interested
- in getting weather info..
-
-
-
- Name=National Weather Service Forecasts
- Type=1
- Port=70
- Path=1/Weather
- Host=ashpool.micro.umn.edu
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