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- From: raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman)
- Subject: Online books:
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.165911.8875@cs.cornell.edu>
- Keywords: Online books gopher veronica
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:59:11 GMT
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- Hi!
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- First things first, for those who saw my message about veronica not
- returning anything under unix gopher 1.02 this is due to a bug in the
- 1.02 gopher client. This was pointed out by the author of veronica and
- I now have veronica up and running under 1.03 unix gopher. (Right now
- the server is down)
-
- I discovered a wealth of online books at a site and project I had
- never heard of. All gophers seem to know about project Gutenberg and
- the etext collection there, but here is another source that has an
- equally extensive collection.
-
- Here's the gopher link:
-
- The site has among other things
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- A Sherlock Holmes collection.
- A collection of Fairy tales
- and a lot of other classics.
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- One question:
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- Many of the files at this site are compressed and a couple of them are
- tar files. Is there any way to convince the gopher client to display
- the files rather than saving them? It should be a simple matter to
- have a little shell script that first sees if the file extension is a
- .Z and if so zcats the file before piping it to the pager.
- Thanks,
-
-
- #
- Type=1
- Name=Online Books Initiative
- Path=world.std.com@/obi/
- Host=dcs1.uwaterloo.ca
- Port=7997
- #
- Type=1
- Name=Fairy.Tales
- Path=world.std.com@/obi/Fairy.Tales/
- Host=dcs1.uwaterloo.ca
- Port=7997
- #
- Type=1
- Name=Root gopher server: gopher-hole.cit.cornell.edu
- Path=
- Host=gopher-hole.cit.cornell.edu
- Port=70
- #
- Type=1
- Name=Conan Doyle sherlock holmes
- Path=world.std.com@/obi/Doyle/
- Host=dcs1.uwaterloo.ca
- Port=7997
- #
- Type=1
- Name=Jane.Austen
- Path=world.std.com@/obi/Jane.Austen/
- Host=dcs1.uwaterloo.ca
- Port=7997
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