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- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:12:07 -0600
- From: BITNET list server at UA1VM (1.8a) <LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
- Subject: File: "MAP20 LESSON"
-
- MAP20: BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS
-
-
- "He that travels much knows much." -- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
-
-
- Once you find a neat Gopher site or menu, how are you ever going to
- remember how to get back to it?
-
- Easy! Leave a bookmark.
-
- Bookmarks are "flags" that allow you to mark a neat Gopher menu or file
- so that you can return to that menu or file whenever you want. All of
- your bookmarks are kept in a "booklist" that acts just like a personal
- gopher menu!
-
- Each Gopher client has its own particular Bookmark commands, but they
- all work on the same basic principle: you leave a bookmark at a site
- that interests you, and you can access that bookmark though a booklist
- that acts just like a regular gopher menu.
-
-
- BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS IN THE UNIX GOPHER CLIENT
-
- If you are using a UNIX Gopher client, there are four basic UNIX bookmark
- commands that you need to remember:
-
- a Adds the item that the --> is pointing at to your
- booklist.
-
- A Adds the current directory that you are in to your
- booklist.
-
- v Views your booklist
-
- d Deletes a bookmark from your booklist
-
-
- On Monday, I showed you the fictional "GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM" root
- Gopher server. Let's go back to that Gopher server and look at
- how we can start using bookmarks to make our lives a little easier:
-
-
- Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com
-
- 1. Information about the Squirrel Gopher Server.
- 2. What's new in the Squirrel Gopher.
- 3. Network Resources, Services and Information/
- 4. Squirrel Staff Directory <CSO>
- 5. Squirrel Human Resources Information/
- 6. Potpourri, Miscellaneous Topics/
- 7. Local Squirrel Archives/
- --> 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
-
-
- If I type an upper case "A", I will add this entire menu to my
- booklist (under the entry "Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com").
- If I type a lower case "a", I will add whatever the --> is pointing
- at to my booklist.
-
- I'm going to do both.
-
- I type an upper case "A", and the following appears on my screen:
-
-
- Name for this bookmark? Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com
-
-
- I can cancel this, rename this bookmark, or accept this name. I'm going
- to accept the name. Once I do this, the bookmark is added to my
- booklist.
-
- I also want to add the "Other Gopher and Information Servers around the
- World" menu to my booklist, so I move the --> cursor down to that line
- and type a lower case "a". I go through the "name" prompt again, and the
- entry is then added to my Booklist.
-
- Okay ... I've just added two bookmarks to my booklist. What does
- *THAT* mean? Well, if I type the letter "v", the following menu
- appears on my screen:
-
-
- Bookmarks
-
- 1. Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com/
- --> 2. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
-
-
- COOL! I've just created my own Gopher menu! Best of all, *I* get to
- decide what information and sites are going to be on this Gopher menu!
-
- Since these two bookmarks look a little lonely, I think I should add
- SURAnet my booklist too. My booklist acts just like any other Gopher
- menu, so I move the cursor down to the "Other Gopher and Information
- Servers around the world" line, press return, and the following menu
- appears on my screen:
-
-
- Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World
-
- 1. All the Gopher Servers in the World/
- 2. Search All the Gopher Servers in the World <?>
- 3. Search titles in Gopherspace using veronica/
- 4. Africa/
- 5. Asia/
- 6. Europe/
- 7. International Organizations/
- 8. Middle East/
- --> 9. North America/
- 10. Pacific/
- 11. Russia/
- 12. South America/
- ... snip snip snip (these are my Internet scissors) ...
-
- We've seen this before!
-
- I move the cursor down to "North America", press return, and the
- following menu appears on my screen:
-
-
- North America
-
- 1. Canada/
- 2. Costa Rica/
- 3. Mexico/
- --> 4. USA/
-
-
- Since I know that SURAnet is in the U.S., I move the cursor down to
- "USA", press return, and the following appears on my screen:
-
-
- USA
-
- --> 1. All/
- 2. General/
- 3. Alabama/
- 4. Alaska/
- 5. Arizona
- ... snip snip snip ...
- 51. West Virginia/
- 52. Wisconsin/
- 53. Wyoming/
-
-
- I select the "All" menu, and after a little while the following menu
- appears on my screen:
-
-
- All
-
- 1. 1994 California Voter information/
- 2. AACRAO National Office, Washington, DC/
- 3. AATF - American Association of Teachers of French/
- 4. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/
- ... snip snip snip ...
- 988. SUNY Office of Library Services
- --> 989. SURAnet NIC/
- 990. Safety Information Resources on the InterNet/
- 991. Sailor - Maryland's Information Network/
- ... snip snip snip ...
-
-
- Now I have a choice. I can either move the cursor down to "SURAnet NIC"
- and type a lower case "a" to add SURAnet to my booklist, or I can
- enter the SURAnet Gopher and type an upper case "A". Either way
- will give me the same result.
-
- I'm lazy. I type a lower case "a".
-
- Let's see what my booklist looks like now. I type the letter "v"
- and the following menu appears on my screen:
-
-
- Bookmarks
-
- 1. Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com/
- 2. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
- --> 3. SURAnet NIC/
-
- Now, if I ever need to get to SURAnet, all I will have to do is access
- my booklist!
-
-
- BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS IN THE RICE CMS GOPHER
-
- Despite what UNIX fans may tell you, not everyone in the world has a
- UNIX account. Many new Internet users -- especially new users at some
- U.S. colleges and universities -- have accounts on IBM VM mainframes
- (as a matter of fact, *MY* main account is on a VM mainframe).
-
- The VM Gopher menu is set-up a little differently from the UNIX
- Gopher menu:
-
-
- Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.0 GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM
- 1/8
- (root menu)
- <document> Information about the Squirrel Gopher Server
- <document> What's new in the Squirrel Gopher
- <menu> Network Resources, Services and Information
- <phonebk> Squirrel staff directory
- <menu> Squirrel Human Resources Information
- <menu> Potpourri, Miscellaneous Topics
- <menu> Local Squirrel Archives
- <menu>_ Other Gopher Servers
-
- 1= Help 2= 3= Return 4= Print 5= Receive 6= Find
- 7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Bookmark 10= Booklist 11= 12= Quit
-
- The VM Gopher has a whole bunch of nifty features. It prints the address
- of the Gopher site that you are connected to in the upper-right-hand
- corner of the screen (UNIX users have to type "=" to get this information).
- It also tells you if a menu item is a file or menu without using any
- weird "/" or "." symbols.
-
- One of the drawbacks to the VM Gopher is that there is no bookmark command
- equivalent to UNIX's lower case "a" command. The VM Gopher's bookmark
- command acts just like UNIX's upper case "A" command, which means that
- you have to actually enter a site or menu item if you want to add that
- site or menu item to your booklist.
-
- Here is what I mean:
-
-
- Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.0 GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM
- 1/8
- (root menu)
- <document> Information about the Squirrel Gopher Server
- <document> What's new in the Squirrel Gopher
- <menu> Network Resources, Services and Information
- <phonebk> Squirrel staff directory
- <menu> Squirrel Human Resources Information
- <menu> Potpourri, Miscellaneous Topics
- <menu> Local Squirrel Archives
- <menu>_ Other Gopher Servers
-
- 1= Help 2= 3= Return 4= Print 5= Receive 6= Find
- 7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Bookmark 10= Booklist 11= 12= Quit
-
- To add this root menu to my booklist, all I have to do is press the PF9
- PF9 key (I won't be able to rename the bookmark entry, though).
-
- However, if I want to add the "Other Gopher Servers" menu to my
- booklist, I have to first enter the "Other Gopher Servers" menu
- (by moving the _ cursor down to the "Other Gopher Servers" line
- and pressing enter), and THEN press PF9.
-
- After I have done this, I can view my new booklist by typing PF10:
-
- Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.0
- 1/8
-
- <menu> (root menu)
- <menu>_ Other Gopher Servers
-
- 1= Help 2= 3= Return 4= Print 5= Load 6= Find
- 7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Delete 10= Refresh 11= 12= Quit
-
-
- Notice that once I enter my booklist, three things happen:
-
- 1. The address in the upper-right-hand corner disappears
- (my booklist is a personal Gopher menu that does not
- have an address) :)
-
- 2. PF9 changes from "Bookmark" to "Delete". If I ever
- need to a delete a bookmark, I'll have to enter
- my Booklist, move the _ cursor to the entry that
- I want to delete, and then press PF9.
-
- 3. PF10 changes from "Booklist" to "Refresh". After I have
- deleted an entry from my Booklist, I can refresh my
- Booklist screen by pressing PF10.
-
-
- HOMEWORK
-
- 1. Play!
-
- 2. Add some sites to your booklist.
-
- 3. Get ready for another pop-quiz ... and this one WON'T be
- multiple choice >:)
-
-
- PATRICK DOUGLAS CRISPEN THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS LETTER DO NOT
- PCRISPE1@UA1VM.UA.EDU NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA - TUSCALOOSA
-
- ROADMAP: COPYRIGHT PATRICK CRISPEN 1994. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
-
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