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Chapter 9 Gopher: Burrowing through the Internet

Getting the software to set up a Gopher Client.

• Use anonymous FTP the boombox.micro.umn.edu at the University of Minnesota. Then look in the directory /pub/gopher . You'll find clients for several different types of computer systems.

Contacting the "home" Gopher server at University of Minnesota

• Point your gopher to gopher.tc.umn.edu

Illustration by Karl Ackermann.

Example 9.1 Accessing the Virtual Reference Desk through Gopher

• Start by pointing your gopher to the Gopher server at University of California, Irvine.
• Then choose the entry Accessing the Internet.
• Go from there to the entry PEG: a peripatetic, eclectic gopher
• Finally choose the Virtual Reference Desk

Example 9.2 Working With a Document on a Gopher Menu

Start by accessing the Gopher server at Mary Washington College select "The Computer Center" and then "Help at MWC" and finally "Using tin for News"

Example 9.3 - Working With Bookmarks

In this example you see how to add menus and items from menus to a bookmark list. You can use these methods with any Gopher menu. The one in the book is the "News & Weather" menu from the Gopher server running at gopher.mountain.net.

Example 9.4 - Veronica Searches

You use Veronica to search for items on Gopher menus, and for items you can get to through Gopher. Veronica servers are located at several sites on the Internet. In this example we start at the Gopher server at The Library of Congress and then choose "Internet Resources", From this menu, you select Veronica and Jughead Servers (search gopherspace).

Sources of Information about Gopher on the Internet

• Information About Gopher is at the University of Minnesota, the home of the original gopher system:
• Guide to Network Resource Tools compiled by the EARN (European Academic and Research Network) Association. Point your gopher to gopher.earn.net, choose "User Services Documentation", then choose "Guide to Network Resource Tools by Chapters " and then finally choose the chapter on Gopher .
• Internet Gopher User's Guide edited by Paul Linder.
• Gopher FAQ: Frequently asked questions about Gopher ; URL ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq.
• Veronica FAQ: Frequently asked questions about Veronica
• How to Compose Veronica Queries
• Description of Jughead
• The Usenet newsgroup dealing with Gopher is comp.infosystems.gopher

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