home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!agate!usenet
- From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives
- Subject: [rec.aviation] rec.aviation gets a gopher all to itself!
- Followup-To: rec.aviation
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 06:04:28 GMT
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- Lines: 39
- Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <186u9cINN17l@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Aug28.213620.20649@eecs.nwu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
- X-Original-Newsgroups: rec.aviation
- X-Original-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:36:20 GMT
-
- Archive-name: auto/rec.aviation/rec-aviation-gets-a-gopher-all-to-itself
-
- Well, I decided that having the Aviation gopher as part of our
- department's gopher was a little too confusing. So I just moved
- it over to my workstation and added an "alias" to our name space
- to separate the name from the machine.
-
- The new and improved rec.aviation gopher server is now available
- on "av.eecs.nwu.edu" (whose Internet address is currently 129.105.5.6,
- but is subject to change without notice). It will archive the following:
-
- There I Was stories
- the fuel prices summary
- the FAQ
- a listing of aviation-related FTP sites
- flight planning sheets (postscript and otherwise)
- rec.aviation reorg information (for as long as it is pertinent)
- anything else I find interesting
-
- It also contains a link to the "Current Weather" portion of our
- department's gopher server. This section contains GIF files of
- the most recent (well, 2 to 3 hours old) satellite picture and
- weather map from UIUC. You will need a gopher client that understands
- the non-standard GIF type ("g") to retrieve these files. Currently
- the only one I know of is a modified "xgopher" version 1.1.
-
- For those who don't know: gopher is a new way of perusing information
- on the Internet. To access information provided by gopher servers, you
- need to have Internet access and you need a gopher client. All the
- current sources for gopher clients and servers are available via
- anonymous FTP from boombox.micro.umn.edu in "/pub/gopher". The
- GIF-capable xgopher is in "/pub/gopher/incoming/xgopher.1.1.GIF.tar.Z"
-
- William LeFebvre
- Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Northwestern University
- <phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
-
-