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- From: gwatts@fnalo.fnal.gov
- Subject: (Q) XGopher 1.2 WAIS gate and ftp image files
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- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:40:50 GMT
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- Hi all,
- I'm fairly new to this, so these may be FAQs (I've been reading for a week
- and havn't seen/heard of FAQs).
-
- I've compiled the XGopher 1.2 client. Nothing could be simpler. Thanks
- and kudos to Allan Tuchman. Now, the questions.
-
- 1) Image files from ftp. I can't fool gopher into displaying these thing.
- I can path to a number of directories that have gif files via
- the ftp interface. The files are in binary format and are gifs (I can use
- the same xloadimage command that xgopher does to display these images), but,
- of course, they don't show up as gifs in xgopher. So, for experiment, I tried
- to use the Enter Gopher Item menu item (in "Other Commands") and set file type
- to "I" and filled in the rest of the info (I got the rest of the info from the
- Info about selection" button) and clicked "process". xloadimage fails with
- unknown image type. My guess is the ftp that xgopher used was not binary. :(
- Is there a way to force it? Better yet, is there a way to display those
- images with out all that work (click the left mouse button, get a pop-up
- menu with "Get as Image" and "Get as Text" and "Get as Directory", etc. etc.)?
-
- 2) The WAIS interface. All the entries show up as <idx>, and searching does
- nothing. I've seen this on the UIUC gopher (host: mudhoney.micro.umn.edu,
- name: WAIS Based Information, type: 1 (directory), Port: 70, Path: 1/WAISes),
- which can be found by going to harpoon.cso.uiuc.edu gopher, in the "Other
- Gopher and Information Servers" subdirectory there is the WAIS connection. If
- I click on "Everything" in the WAIS Based Information directory, I get a
- long list of files all with <idx> in front of them. Now, in a README it sais
- that there was a minor change in the protocal for gopher -- does xgopher 1.2
- have this minor change?
-
- Thanks!
-
- Cheers,
- Gordon.
-
-