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- Copyright (c) 1993 Kevin Gamiel,CNIDR, and UNC-Chapel Hill
-
- Please send bugs and comments to Kevin.Gamiel@cnidr.org.
-
- The Gopher Book
- 1.1
- 5/23/93
-
- Contents
- --------
- 1 Introduction
- What is Gopher?
- What is Winsock?
- What is The Gopher Book?
- What is CNIDR?
- What about UNC-Chapel Hill?
- What's This About Copyright?
- Who's Responsible?
- Thank You!
-
- 2 Installation
- Requirements
- Installing The Gopher Book
- Troubleshooting
-
- 3 Application Layout and Operation
- The Book
- File Menu
- Bookmark Menu
- Options Menu
- Help Menu
-
- 1 Introduction
- --------------
- What is Gopher?
-
- Gopher is a client-server based Internet Information Retrieval
- system developed by the University of Minnesota. The system
- provides clients with a heirachical view of the Internet and
- allows file retrieval and access to other services including
- WAIS, Telnet, and others.
-
- What is Winsock?
-
- Windows Sockets (Winsock) is an open specification for providing
- a common network Application Programming Interface (API) for
- Microsoft Windows. Historically, writing network applications
- for PCs with Windows has been a daunting task because of
- various vendor-specific protocol stacks. Major players
- from industry and the Internet community joined together to
- standardize the API, based on the Berkely Sockets paradigm
- used on UNIX systems. Today, the major vendors are either
- already shipping or will soon ship winsock.dll with their
- protocol stacks. With this file from your favorite vendor,
- any "Winsock compliant" network application will work!
- We fully support and applaud the work of the Winsockers.
-
- What is The Gopher Book?
-
- The simplicity of the Gopher protocol is the reason for its
- popularity on the net. In keeping with this simplicity, The
- Gopher Book is an attempt to superimpose the book paradigm,
- one we are all familiar with, onto the Gopher information system.
- Menus fetched from Gopher servers are presented as pages in
- the book. Each page can contain references to other pages,
- text files, image files, binary files, telnet sessions, and
- others. The user selects items from the page by double-clicking
- that item and the book either turns to a new page or retrieves
- the item, starting a user-defined application to 'view' that
- file or service. Bookmarks are provided to allow quick access to
- useful pages.
-
-
- What is CNIDR?
-
- CNIDR, the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery
- and Retrieval, is supported primarily by the National Science
- Foundation and the MCNC Center for Communications to promote
- the use and development of NIDR systems. Initially focused
- on Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), CNIDR broadened its
- scope to include NIDR systems in general. Gopher, World Wide
- Web, Z39.50, and Whois++ are examples of these systems.
-
- CNIDR
- MCNC Center for Communications
- Post Office Box 12889
- 3021 Cornwallis Road
- Research Triangle Park
- North Carolina 27709-2889
- 919-248-1499
- fax 919-248-1405
- e-mail info@cnidr.org
-
- What about UNC-Chapel Hill?
-
- An early implementor of the WAIS protocol, UNC's Office of
- Information Technology Development Group has actively supported
- the use and growth of various Internet information services
- including Gopher. The group has now gained global popularity
- though a cooperative project with Sun Microsystems called
- sunSITE. SunSITE is an international information depository
- currently consisting of software for all platforms, academic
- journals, Smithsonian photo archives, and much more. The site
- was recently chosen as an official electronic information
- repository for the White House! SunSITE superscedes
- traditional archives by providing WAIS and Gopher access, as
- well as ftp.
- Point your Gopher to sunsite.unc.edu, port 70 and have fun!
-
- What's This About Copyright?
-
- This software can be used freely and redistributed in its
- entirety. No portion of this software can, without the
- permission of the author, be sold for any reason. This
- software is provided as-is and the copyright owners bear
- absolutely no responsibility as to the operation of this
- software.
-
- Who's Responsible?
-
- Kevin Gamiel
- CNIDR 919-248-1499
- UNC-Chapel Hill 919-962-9107
- Kevin.Gamiel@cnidr.org
-
- Thank You!
-
- This application wouldn't be possible without the contributions
- of the following folks:
-
- University of Minnesota
- Netmanage, Inc.
- Lanera, Inc.
- Microsoft, Inc.
- The Winsock crew
-
- 2 Installation
- --------------
- Requirements
-
- - Microsoft Windows 3.x
-
- - Wingding fonts! If this font isn't installed in Windows,
- the user will not see descriptive icons beside Gopher
- page items, rather a senseless, but consistant,character.
-
- - Windows Sockets (Winsock) TCP/IP protocol stack 1.1 or later
-
- Installing The Gopher Book
-
- 1) Copy GOPHBOOK.ZIP to an appropriate directory
- 2) Execute PKUNZIP.EXE -d GOPHBOOK.ZIP. A subdirectory named
- GOPHBOOK will be created containing the files indicated
- in GOPHBOOK.TXT
- 3) From the Windows Program Manager, select 'File', 'New'.
- 4) Select 'Group Item' and create a group named "Gopher Book 1.1"
- 5) Again select 'File', 'New'.
- 6) Select 'Program Item' and enter the following information:
- Description: The Gopher Book 1.0
- Command Line: <path>\GOPHBOOK\TBOOK.EXE GOPHER11.TBK
- Working Dir: <path>\GOPHBOOK
- Shortcut: None
- 7) Double click on the icon and start Gophering!
-
- Troubleshooting
-
- Q) I get the message "Failed to Initialize Winsock!" when I start?
- A) You don't have a Winsock compliant TCP/IP stack, the stack
- is not installed properly, or is less than version 1.1.
- This application is useless without Winsock installed
- and therefore it exits when not properly installed.
-
- Q) When I retrieve a text or image file, I get a "no such file" error message?
- A) Enter the full file specifications for the text or image viewer
- in the Options/Configure dialog box. For example, "c:\windows\notepad.exe".
-
- Q) What is in the GOPHBOOK.INI file?
- A) This file contains configuration information for The Gopher
- Book. You can add your own by hand but BE CAREFUL!
- This should be done before starting the application
- because this file is only read at that time. The
- syntax is:
-
- <hostname>
- <port>
- <text editor>
- <image viewer>
- <telnet app>
-
- For example:
-
- gopher.micro.umn.edu
- 70
- c:\windows\notepad.exe
- c:\bin\ps.exe
- c:\netmanag\telnet.exe
-
- Q) What is in the BOOKMARK.INI file?
- A) This file contains all pertinant information needed to maintain
- Gopher objects, ie bookmarks. You can add your own by hand
- but BE CAREFUL! This should be done before starting the
- application because this file is only read at that time.
- The syntax is:
-
- <type>,<name>,<selector>,<host>,<port>
-
- For example:
- 1,Sunsite.unc.edu,,sunsite.unc.edu,70
-
- 3 Application Layout and Operation
- ----------------------------------
- The Book
- When the book is closed, a double mouse click anywhere on the cover
- begins the Gopher session. At this point, the books attempts
- to retrieve the Gopher menu from the server indicated in the
- Options:Configure dialog box. Assuming no errors, the book
- then opens. The right page of the book contains a text description
- of the current Gopher page and a list box containing the items
- on that page. The left page contains only an icon of a book flipping
- its pages. By double-clicking anywhere on the left page the user can
- traverse through previously visited pages.
-
- File Menu
- Exit
- Restart Gopher
- This menu item is useful if you change your default Gopher
- server via the configuration menu or if you just want to
- start over again in a familiar place.
-
- Bookmark Menu
- Go to
- Displays a dialog box containing the current bookmarks.
- The user then selects a bookmarked page to turn to.
- Place
- Choosing this menu will set a bookmark on the current
- page.
- Remove
- Displays a dialog box containing the current bookmarks.
- The user can then select 1 or more bookmarks to delete
- from the list.
-
- Options Menu
- Configure
- Dialog box indicating the root Gopher server and port as
- well as user-defined viewers for the various file types.
- View This Item
- Displays the Gopherese for the selected item.
-
- Help Menu
- Index
- Starts the default text editor with manual.txt
- About
- Who, what, when, where...
-