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- Xgopher 1.3 is now available by FTP.
- (Xgopher is a gopher client for the X Window System.)
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- | Xgopher 1.3 is available as a compressed tar file by anonymous ftp from |
- | |
- | host: ftp.cso.uiuc.edu |
- | file: uiuc/src/xgopher.1.3.tar.Z |
- | |
- | host: boombox.micro.umn.edu |
- | file: pub/gopher/Unix/xgopher.1.3.tar.Z |
- | |
- | host: export.lcs.mit.edu |
- | file: contrib/xgopher.README |
- | file: contrib/xgopher.1.3.tar.Z |
- | |
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-
- Xgopher 1.3 contains several improvements to Xgopher 1.2
-
- A complete list of additions and changes is appended to the end of this
- announcement.
-
-
- -Allan Tuchman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
- phone: (217) 244-0048
- a-tuchman@uiuc.edu
-
- ==========================================================================
- ------------------------------
- | === New in Xgopher 1.3 === |
- ------------------------------
-
- -- New Features
- . Extended types: allows you to add or redefine types to Xgopher
- with no changes to the program.
- . Status popup window tells what's happening. A long file transfer
- may be cancelled.
- . Every popup window may be positioned explicitly, and with a
- fairly general specification.
- . Entirely new file save/copy dialog
- . ICCCM compliant behavior for window manager "close" function.
-
- -- Bug Fixes
- . several minor bugs were fixed
- . leading ~ in path name now applies to ~username also.
-
- -- User Interface
- . Better message when app-defaults file is unavailable or out-of-date
- . Index and CSO popups redirect all of their text input to the text entry
- fields.
- . All top-level windows have icon names, which may be user-selected.
- . quit-app() action is invoked by default by pressing a control-D
- in the main Xgopher panel.
- . May limit the number of text windows displayed. Open windows will
- be reused if a new text file is selected and you're at the limit.
- . New showItems determines what is displayed in the item list, from
- {all, known, accessible, available}, depending on security resources.
- . control-U is defined in all text entry fields to delete the whole line.
- . Read-only text displays no longer show the insert cursor.
- . New resource will warp the cursor to a popup requesting input
- (default is not to warp cursor).
- . Index keyword request popup no longer requires interactive placement
- on some window managers.
-
- -- Security
- . log and temp files are created private, text files according to the
- user's umask.
- . May suppress the "enter gopher item" panel
- . new Servers resource can specify which servers Xgopher will
- accept data from for text, image, and sound files. Extended
- types may also specify a list of host servers for each type.
- . new allowFtp resource may be used to disallow ftp data access.
- . new publicMode resource is a meta-resource to set many
- security-related resources (see the man page for which ones).
-
-
- -- Minor Customization
- . Some default colors and fonts were changed for readability
- . Virtually all constraint resources have been moved from the
- resources file to the source program.
- . Slight change to speed up directory retrievial.
-
- -- Documentation
- . Documents on Porting, Customization, Extended Types, Edits,
- Popups, Installation Customization, Implementation, and Sun problems.
- Updated man page.
-
- -- Portability
- . Tested on Solaris 2.1 in addition to 6 other platforms.
-
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