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- References: <STAT-L%93011102142711@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Message-ID: <93011.090909KLASSEN@UVVM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:09:09 PST
- Sender: STATISTICAL CONSULTING <STAT-L@MCGILL1.BITNET>
- Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was NETNEWS@UVVM.UVIC.CA
- From: Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: WHERE AND HOW TO GOPHER
- Lines: 88
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- In article <STAT-L%93011102142711@VM1.MCGILL.CA>, COFLUNKC@NUSVM.BITNET says:
- >I have, on several occasions, seen the reference to the use of GOPHER to
- >search for archived statistical materials. I shall be pleased if someone can
- >kindly show me WHERE and HOW to gopher my way into archived statistical
- >"goodies", particularly relating to biostatistics.
- Here's **part** of the documentation about GOPHER.
- _____________________________
-
- Archive-name: gopher-faq
- Last-modified: 1992/12/08
-
- Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher, a client/server
- protocol for making a world wide information service, with many
- implementations. Post to comp.infosystems.gopher & news.answers every 2 weeks.
-
- The most recent version of this FAQ can be gotten through gopher,
- or via anonymous ftp to: RTFM.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq
-
- Those without FTP access should send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- with "send usenet/news.answers/finding-sources" in the body to find out
- how to do FTP by e-mail.
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- List of questions in the Gopher FAQ:
-
- Q0: What is Gopher?
- Q1: Where can I get Gopher software?
- Q2: What do I need to access Gopher?
- Q3: Where are there publicly available logins for Gopher?
- Q4: How can I add to the information in gopher?
- Q5: Who Develops Gopher Software?
- Q6: How can I set up a "CSO" phone book server? Where is the software?
- Q7: Why can't I access the University of Minnesota's UPI news?
- Q9: What are the type characters for the different Gopher Objects?
- Q10: When I do full-text searches I always get every document back, Why?
- Q11: When I try to build the UNIX software I get an error from make:
- "Must be a separator on rules line #. Stop" Why?
- Q12: What is the relationship between Gopher and (WAIS, WWW, ftp)?
- Q13: Are papers or articles describing Gopher available?
- Q14: On a DECstation I get the error message "/etc/svc.conf no such file
- or directory" when running the gopherd server, why?
- Q15: The boolean searching terms don't work for my full-text index, why?
- Q16: When linking the Unix gopher server with WAIS I get undefined
- symbols,
- Q18: Why don't my WAIS indexes work? I never get anything back for searches.
- or Why do I get "Dangling file" error messages in my logfile?
- Q19: My gopher server doesn't work under inetd, why?
- Q20: This is not a bug report, just a curiousity. I managed to install
- Q21: Help! I have PC-NFS and want to use the PC-Gopher client. How?
- Q22: How do I nuke a hung TCP connection? I can't restart my UNIX
- gopher server unless I get rid of it, and I don't want to reboot!
- Q23: Is there somewhere I can retrieve a list of announced gopher
- links? I'd like to keep a local, up-to-date list of available gopher
- holes without requiring our users to gopher to umn just to scan
- GopherSpace.
- Q24: Why doesn't my unix gopher client display ISO-Latin-1 characters
-
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- Q3: Where are there publicly available logins for Gopher?
-
- A3: Here is a short list, use the site closest to you to minimize
- network lag.
-
- Non-tn3270 Public Logins:
-
- Hostname IP# Login Area
- ------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
- consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America
- gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America
- panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America
- gopher.sunet.se 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe
- info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia
- gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden
- tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America
- ecnet.ec 157.100.45.2 gopher Ecuador
-
- tn3270 Public Logins:
-
- Hostname IP# Login Area
- ------------------------- --------------- ------ -------------
- pubinfo.ais.umn.edu 128.101.109.1 -none- North America
-
-
- It is recommended that you run the client software instead of
- logging into the public login sites. A client uses the
- custom features of the local machine (mouse, scroll bars, etc.)
- and is local client is also faster.
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