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- Subject: [comp.infosystems.gopher] SPIGopher available via anonymous ftp
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.infosystems.gopher/SPIGopher-available-via-anonymous-ftp
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- This is to let you know that I've made all the SPIGopher code available
- via anonymous ftp for anyone who's interested.
-
- The files are located on:
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- dataserver.syr.edu (128.230.4.5)
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- in the /pub/spigopher directory.
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- For those of you who don't know:
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- SPIGopher is a system that allows [SPIRES] databases to be integrated
- in a "read only" manner into the Gopher world. The integration is
- transparent in that, by using already existing Gopher "types":
-
- 0 document (or file)
- 1 menu
- 7 search
-
- users are unaware that they are interacting with SPIRES (the DBMS and
- the databases within).
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- Not including SPIRES, the DBMS from Stanford University,
- SPIGopher@suvm.syr.edu (VM/CMS operating system) needs:
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- REXX, CMS PIPES, Gopher software (the GOPHER REXX files, really),
- RXSOCKET and RAMDISK. The last is used for creating a "virtual minidisk"
- for SPIRES output.
-
- Non-SPIRES sites may want to look at the code as a MODEL
- for setting up a "hook" between Gopher and any service that
- can work within already recognized Gopher types.
-
-
- The files in the directory are:
-
- General:
- -------
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- SPIGOPHR.FILES Contents of directory
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- SPIGOPHR.README Brief introduction, "terms & conditions"
-
- spigophr.paper Text of the SPIGopher paper presented at
- the SPIRES Fall '92 Workshop. Talks about
- Gopher, database searching and connecting the two.
- spigophr.fig1 Text of Figure 1 of spigophr.paper showing
- Gopher client-SPIGopher interaction. NOTE:
- The line length exceeds 80 characters.
-
- VM related:
- -----------
-
- spigophr.direct Directory entry of "main" SPIGopher server
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- spigoph1.direct Sample directory entry of "index" server
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- spigophr.profile PROFILE EXEC of main SPIGopher server
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- spigoph1.profile PROFILE EXEC of SPIGopher index server
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- Rexx Code:
- ---------
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- strtsvr.exec EXEC to gets things rolling
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- getdbind.exec EXEC used by index servers at start-up
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- spigophr.exec Modified VM-Gopher server (GOPHERD EXEC 2.3.0)
- developed by Rick Troth of Rice University
- to listen for requests, pass request to
- $SPIGFR$ EXEC and send any "result" back.
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- $spigfr$.exec Rexx-SPIRES interface that does SPIGopher requests
-
- SPIRES related:
- --------------
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- spigfr.definer File Definer for SPIGOPHER - the "meta"
- database, used by SPIGopher
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- spigfr.format Formats associated with SPIGOPHER
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- rstrnts.spigfr SPIGOPHER record for RESTAURANTS subfile
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- rstgfr.format SPIGopher format for RESTAURANTS subfile
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- Please feel free to pass this on to anyone you think may be interested.
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- B
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- -- Bhaskaran Balakrishnan, Faculty Computing Services --
- -- Computing Services, Syracuse University , Syracuse, NY 13244 --
- -- Bitnet: BBALAKRI@SUVM Internet: BBALAKRI@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU --
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