available to the more sophisticated information provider.
Servers and clients run on most popular hardware, including Macs,
UNIX boxes, PC-DOS boxes. The Internet Gopher name is copyright (c)
1991-1992 by the University of Minnesota. The Internet Gopher
protocol is described in an informational RFC(1436) available at
better RFCarchives everywhere. Extensions to the base gopher
protocol allow for associating meta-information with gopher items,
alternate views of documents (i.e., text, postscript, rtf, etc.) and
electronic forms. Collectively, these extensions are referred to as
Gopher+. Gopher+ is upward compatible with the orginal gopher
protocol. The gopher software may be retrieved from numerous Gopher
or FTP archive sites, including the University of Minnesota Gopher
server, the Info-Mac Archive Gopher server, and by anonymous FTP from
boombox.micro.umn.edu and sumex-aim.stanford.edu. As of December
1993, about 1/3 of the approximately 4800 Gopher servers on the
internet support Gopher+.
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Postal Address: Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center
152 Shepherd Labs
100 Union Street SE.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Fax: +1-612-625-6817
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Help Line:
Name: Microcomputer HelpLine;
ask for The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Telephone: USA: 612 MA MICRO (+1-612-626-4276)
Helpline is for general support at the U of M.
Level of support offered: all users
Hours available: Phone Helpline 9-4 weekdays.
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Related Working Groups:
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Mailing Lists:
Address: gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Administration: gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Description: News and views of all things gopher. Tends to
be a high volume mailing list and technically
oriented.
Archive: Via Gopher: University of Minnesota Gopher
Information About Gopher
Address: gopher-announce@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Administration: gopher-announce-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Description: A low-volume mailing list of announcements of
new software and servers.
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News groups:
Name: comp.infosystems.gopher
Description: Discussion of all things gopher.
Archive: Available via gopher client; connect to the
gopher server at gopher.tc.umn.edu port 70,
look in the "Information About Gopher" section.
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Protocols:
What is supported: Internet Gopher
What it runs over: Anything you can run TCP/IP over.
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Z39.50 WAIS variant via WAIS gateway
FTP via FTP gateway
archie/Prospero via an archie gateway
veronica (an archie for gopherspace)
NNTP via NNTP gateway
Finger (subset of gopher)
X.500 via X.500 gateway
Z39.50 1992 revision variant via Z39.50 gateway
Oracle and Sybase SQL servers via SQL gateway
CSO (Ph/Qi) online phone books
Future plans: New user interace metaphor on PowerPC and
Pentium-based clients.
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Servers:
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: UNIX.
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (things change fast;
please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Server, index server for WAIS based indices and for NeXT
native indexing, tools, gateway code. Supports Gopher+.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Over 3000.
General comments:
The defacto standard workhorse Gopher server.
Paul Lindner is the architect and keeper of this server.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh.
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Macintosh Gopher Server and tools,
supports Gopher+.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Current estimates between 300 and 400.
General comments:
Runs on any Macintosh with 1MB memory or more.
Requires MacTCP. Can be configured to use Apple Computer's AppleSearch
full-text search software as a Gopher-accessible search engine.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: PC-DOS.
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Additional contacts:
Name: Dennis Sherman
Email address: Dennis_Sherman@unc.edu
Name: Foteos Macrides
Email address: macrides@sci.wfeb.edu
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 0.91b
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Basic Gopher server for PC-DOS boxes.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Current estimates between 25 and 75.
General comments:
Written by Chris McNeil <cmcneil@mta.ca>, based on Phil Karns net
package. The U of M Gopher team forwards difficult problems to
Chris.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VMS
Primary Contact:
Name: J. Lance Wilkinson
Email address: jlw@psulias.psu.edu
Telephone: +1-814-865-1818
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/VMS/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 1.2 VMS-0
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Basic VMS Server, shares some code with UNIX server.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
35-40 servers in use.
General comments:
The VMS server was written and is maintained by J. Lance Wilkinson,
Foteos Macrides, Bruce Tanner and others on the
VMSGopher-L@trln.lib.unc.edu mailing list.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS
Primary Contact:
Name: Rick Troth
Email address: TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/
Brazos.IS.Rice.EDU:/pub/vmcms/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 2.4
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher server for IBM VM/CMS installations.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
This server was written and is maintained by Rick Troth.
This server is commonly referred to as the Rice VM/CMS server.
There is also another VM/CMS server: the Vienna VM/CMS server.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Gerhard Gonter
Email address: Gerhard.Gonter@WU-Wien.ac.at
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 2.00.00
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher server for IBM VM/CMS installations.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
This server was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.
This server is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS server.
There is also another VM/CMS server: the Rice VM/CMS server.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: MVS
Primary Contact:
Name: Steve Bacher
Email address: seb@draper.com
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu:/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 2.1
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher server for IBM MVS installations.
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
This server was written and is maintained by Steve Bacher.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Unix veronica server
Primary Contact:
Name: Steve Foster
Email address: gophadm@futique.scs.unr.edu
Telephone:
Server software available from:
Via FTP: veronica.scs.unr.edu:/veronica
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
veronica server software
Approximate number of such servers in use:
Unknown.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Steve Foster at the
University of Nevada.
Future plans: Additional support for searching on Gopher+ attributes
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Clients:
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
General comments:
Macintosh TurboGopher is as of this writing, the fastest
Gopher client available for the Mac. Written by the
Minnesota Gopher Development Team. Supports Gopher+.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact:
Name: Don Gilbert, Biology, Indiana
University - Bloomington
Email address: Software@Bio.Indiana.Edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: Indiana University Gopher Server
IUBio Software+Data/GopherApp,
Mac Gopher client
Via FTP: ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/gopher/
gopherapp/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Don Gilbert. Supports Gopher+.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Macintosh
Primary Contact:
Name: "Jonzy"
Email address: JONZY@CC.UTAH.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: gopher.cc.utah.edu in Testing directory
Via FTP: ftp.cc.utah.edu:/pub/gopher/Macintosh/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
One of the many Macintosh Gopher clients. Requires MacTCP.
Has a browser style interface.
Uses customized Telnet application.
General comments:
Written and maintained by "Jonzy".
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: UNIX (curses/EMACS based client)
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
The UNIX curses-based client.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Paul Lindner. Supports Gopher+.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: UNIX (simple client does not use CURSES)
Primary Contact:
Name: Sean Fuller
Email address: fuller@aedc-vax.af.mil
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 0.3
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
sgopher is a simple gopher client for inetd/batch/online; it does not
require much of the terminal other than it be 80X24 characters. It
can be run stand alone or it can be launched from inetd. It doesn't
use termcap or curses. Sgopher outputs the \r\n pair at the end of
line and requires a <return> after each command to support more
terminal types.
General comments:
Runs on VMS, IRIX, Ultrix, AIX, Solaris 2.x, Solaris 1.x
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client
Primary Contact:
Name: Allan Tuchman
Email address: tuchman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes use of the X interface.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Allan Tuchman.
Future plans: Gopher+ support planned for the future.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Xgopher: UNIX XWindows based client
Primary Contact:
Name: Andrew Scherpbier
Email address: xvgopher@gopher.sdsu.edu
turtle@sciences.sdsu.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes use of the X interface... displays a way cool chewing gopher
icon while information is being downloaded.
General comments:
XView based gopher client.
Future plans: Gopher+ support.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: NeXT: NeXTstep client
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Makes full use of the NeXT interface.
General comments:
Initial version written by Max Tardiveau.
Now maintained by Paul Lindner.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS TurboVision w/Clarkson packet
drivers
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Character-based graphics and windows under DOS. Uses either Clarkson
Packet drivers (CRWYN packet drivers) and a built-in TCP/IP protocol
stack or Ftp, Inc.'s protocol stack (PC/TCP).
General comments:
Gopher+ support.
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Mark Van Overbeke
Email address: mark@ummvxm.mrs.umn.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 0.6
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
The VMS client was written and is maintained by Mark Van Overbeke.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: The Internet Gopher Development Team
Email address: gopher@micro.umn.edu
Telephone: +1-612-625-1300
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 1.12
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Identical to Unix gopher1.12. Works on a VMS 5.5-2 system running
MultiNet 3.1B. UCX and Wollongong are also supported.
General comments:
A port of the University of Minnesota Unix client to VMS.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Rick Troth
Email address: TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.
General comments:
This client was written and is maintained by Rick Troth.
This client is commonly referred to as the Rice VM/CMS client.
There is also another VM/CMS client: the Vienna VM/CMS client.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: VM/CMS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Gerhard Gonter
Email address: Gerhard.Gonter@WU-Wien.ac.at
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for IBM VM/CMS installations.
General comments:
This client was written and is maintained by Gerhard Gonter.
This client is commonly referred to as the Vienna VM/CMS client.
There is also another VM/CMS client: the Rice VM/CMS client.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS with PC/TCP.
Primary Contact:
Name: Steven E. Newton
Email address: snewton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu:/public/dos/misc/
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for DOS with PC/TCP
General comments:
Written and maintained by Steven E. Newton
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS with PC-NFS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Stan Barber
Email address: sob@TMC.EDU
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: bcm.tmc.edu:/nfs/gopher.exe
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for DOS with PC-NFS
General comments:
Written and maintained by Stan Barber
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client
Primary Contact:
Name: Jeremy T. James
Email address: blackp@med.umich.edu
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via FTP: lennon.itn.med.umich.edu:pub/gopher
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
DOS Novell LWP Gopher Client
General comments:
Written and maintained by Jeremy T. James.
Future plans:
-------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Windows 3.1 with Winsock or PC/NFS.
Primary Contact:
Name: Martyn Hampson
Email address: m.hampson@ic.ac.uk
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: lister.cc.ic.ac.uk
/pub/wingopher
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: (please check software distribution)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for Windows; uses either Winsock DLL or PC/NFS network
interface.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Martyn Hampson. Gopher+ support.
Future plans:
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Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Windows with Winsock and ToolBook.
Primary Contact:
Name: Kevin Gamiel
Email address: kgamiel@kudzu.cnidr.org
Telephone:
Client software available from:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: sunsite.unc.edu
/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/gophbook.zip
Location of more information:
As above.
Latest version number: 1.0
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
Gopher client for Windows; uses Asymetrix's ToolBook to paint the
screen and speaks to the network via a Winsock DLL.
General comments:
Written and maintained by Kevin Gamiel
Future plans:
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Air Gopher commercial client for windows
Primary Contact:
Name: David Pool, Spry Software, Inc.
Email address: dave@spry.com
Telephone: +1-206-447-0300
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Future plans:
Gopher+ support planned.
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: Win Gopher
Primary Contact:
Name: Bill Easton, Notis, Inc.
Telephone: +1-708-866-0159
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Requires Winsock. Supports gopher.
Future plans:
Gopher+ support planned.
------------------------------
Date completed or updated: 14 March, 1994
By: Name: Mark McCahill
Email address: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Platform: GINA
Primary Contact:
Name: Mark Resmer, California Technology
Project
Email address: resmer@eis.calstale.edu
Client software available from:
Location of more information:
Latest version number:
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General Comments:
Macintosh and windows clients include netnews, email.
Future plans:
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Demonstration sites:
List of sites which are willing to act as demonstration
sites for this application.
site name ip address login as serving area
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consultant.micro.umn.edu 134.84.132.4 gopher North America
gopher.uiuc.edu 128.174.33.160 gopher North America
panda.uiowa.edu 128.255.40.201 panda North America
info.anu.edu.au 150.203.84.20 info Australia
gopher.chalmers.se 129.16.221.40 gopher Sweden
tolten.puc.cl 146.155.1.16 gopher South America
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Documentation:
Title: (1) Gopher Protocol and
(2) Gopher+ Proposed Extensions
Location details:
Via Gopher: U of M Gopher
Information About Gopher
Gopher Software Distribution
Via FTP: boombox.micro.umn.edu
/pub/gopher/
Title: RFC1436 The Internet Gopher Protocol
(a distributed document search and retrieval
protocol)
Via FTP: nic.ddn.mil
/rfc/rfc1436.txt
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Bibliography:
The Whole Internet, Ed Kroll, O'Reilly, 1992
The Internet Gopher, "ConneXions", July 1992, Interop.
Exploring Internet GopherSpace "The Internet Society News", v1n2 1992
The Internet Gopher Protocol, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third
IETF, CNRI, Section 5.3
Internet Gopher, Proceedings of Canadian Networking '92
The Internet Gopher, INTERNET: Getting Started, SRI
International, Section 10.5.5
Tools help Internet users discover on-line treasures, Computerworld,
July 20, 1992
TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly.
Balakrishan, B. (Oct 1992) "SPIGopher: Making SPIRES databases
accessible through the Gopher protocol". SPIRES Fall '92
Workshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Other Information:
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HYTELNET
Date template updated or checked: 28 February, 1994
By: Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
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NIR Tool Name: HYTELNET
Brief Description of Tool:
HYTELNET is a terminate-and-stay-resident hypertext browser, which
gives a user full instructions for logging into telnet-accessible
sites on the Internet i.e., library catalogs, campus-wide information
systems, bulletin boards, directory services, gophers, etc. The
browser does not make remote connections. A Unix/VMS version, which
does make remote connections, has been written by Earl Fogel,
Computing Services, University of Saskatchewan. Macintosh and Amiga
versions are also available (see ftp site information below).
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Postal Address: 324 8th Street East
Saskatoon, Sask, Canada S7H 0P5
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Fax: +1-306-966-6040
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Help Line:
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Level of support offered:
o volunteer
Hours available: 8:00 a.m - 3:30 p.m CST
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Related Working Groups:
None
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
None
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Mailing Lists: HYTELNET Updates Distribution
Address: hytel-l@kentvm.kent.edu
Administration: By listowner Peter Scott
aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Description:
To inform members of new versions of the software, and to keep users
informed of new/changed/defunct Telnet-accessible sites
To subscribe send e-mail message to listserv@kentvm.kent.edu with
no subject, and sub hytel-l firstname lastname as the body of the
message.
Archive: None
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News groups: bit.listserv.hytel-l
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Protocols:
What is supported:
What it runs over:
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Future plans: Possible translation into gopher format
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Servers:
None.
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Clients:
Date completed or updated: 21 December, 1993
By: Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Platform: DOS
Primary Contact
Name: Peter Scott
Email address: aa375@freenet.carleton.ca
Telephone: +1-306-966-5920
Client software available from:
ftp.usask.ca in
pub/hytelnet/pc as hytelnXX.zip, where XX = latest version number.
pub/hytelnet/{amiga,unix,vms,mac}/* for respective versions
Location of more information: finger scottp@jester.usask.ca
Latest version number: 6.6 (Issued October 23, 1993)
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
General comments:
Future plans:
To contine to produce updated versions in current form.
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Demonstration sites:
The Unix/VMS version can be accessed via telnet to access.usask.ca
(login: hytelnet)
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Documentation: None
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Bibliography:
HYTELNET as software for accessing the Internet: a personal
perspective on the development of HYTELNET.
Electronic Networking, Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring 1992 pp 38-44
Hypertext...Information at your fingertips.
In: Designing Information: new roles for librarians.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
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Other Information:
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NETFIND
Date template updated or checked: 1 March, 1994
By: Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
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NIR Tool Name: Netfind
Brief Description of Tool:
Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of
where the person works, Netfind attempts to locate information about
the person. People can be specified by first, last, or login name.
Their place of work can be described by name and/or the
city/state/country.
Netfind provides textual information about people, when it is able to
locate such information. It is not a directory in the usual sense of
the word. Rather, it searches for people using a number of Internet
services and heuristics about how to locate user information.
Because of the techniques it uses, Netfind can locate information
about more people than any other Internet user directory - over 5
million people in over 9,000 domains worldwide when last measured.
You can use the University of Colorado Netfind server by telnet to
bruno.cs.colorado.edu: login as "netfind" (with no password). Help
screens providing more detailed instructions and technical
information are available there. There is currently no way for non-
Internet users to access Netfind (e.g., using an email interface).
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Primary Contact(s):
Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: netfind-dvl@cs.colorado.edu
Postal Address: Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0430
Telephone: Declined. (Note: Netfind is currently a
volunteer service. We do not have staff
resources to support telephone inquiries.)
Fax: Declined.
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Help Line:
There are an increasing number of Netfind servers being set up at
various Network Information Centers (including the U.S. Internic).
However, since Netfind is provided as a volunteer service at this
time, there is no help line.
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Related Working Groups:
Gopher, NIR, IIIR, IRTF-RD.
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Sponsoring Organisation / Funding source:
None. Netfind was originally a research prototype. It is offered
as-is, on an unsupported basis. From time to time the original
developers make improvements, but it is not currently funded.
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Mailing Lists:
Address: netfind-users@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: netfind-users-request@cs.colorado.edu
Description: mailing list for user changes and updates.
Archive: None.
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Address: netfind-servers@cs.colorado.edu
Administration: netfind-servers-request@cs.colorado.edu
Description: mailing list for sites running Netfind servers.
Archive: None.
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News groups:
None.
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Protocols:
What is supported: NVT ASCII. At present no formal protocol is
used. We are currently implementing a client/
server protocol, which will allow better clients
and more efficient servers.
What it runs over: TCP/IP.
Other NIR tools this interworks with:
Finger, Gopher, PH, SMTP, USENET news, UUCP
maps, Various NIC databases, Various service
logs, WAIS, WHOIS, X.500, DNS
Future plans:
Many. Telnet to the server and see the "Future Directions" menu
under the "Frequently Asked Questions" help menu.
In addition to the above list, we are currently exploring
possibilities to integrate the Netfind seed database gathering
mechanisms into the Fremont framework, to make the process more
scalable, and to support other types of information (e.g., to help
with mapping the Internet).
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Servers:
Date completed or updated: October 12, 1993
By: Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Platform: SunOS 4.1 or more recent. Uncertain
whether Netfind will run on Solaris.
Primary Contact:
Name: Mike Schwartz
Email address: schwartz@cs.colorado.edu
Telephone: (not supplied)
Server software available from: ftp.cs.colorado.edu, in the
directory pub/cs/distribs/netfind.
Location of more information: in above directory.
Latest version number: 4.4.
Brief Scope and Characteristics:
This version of Netfind incorporates the ability for sites to
register a set of URLs in their DNS server, pointing Netfind to a
variety of different sources for information. Netfind can now tap
information from X.500, WHOIS, and PH, in addition to the previous
sources it used (finger, etc.). For more information see
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/netfind/Netfind.WP.URLs
Approximate number of such servers in use:
17 public servers; hundreds or thousands of private stand-alone
clients.
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Clients:
The Netfind client is available in the same release as the server.
See above.
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Demonstration sites:
Site name: bruno.cs.colorado.edu
The current list is:
archie.au (AARNet, Melbourne, Australia)
bruno.cs.colorado.edu (University of Colorado, Boulder)
dino.conicit.ve (Nat. Council for Techn. & Scien. Research,
Venezuela)
ds.internic.net (InterNIC Directory and DB Services,
S. Plainfield, NJ)
eis.calstate.edu (California State University, Fullerton, CA)
lincoln.technet.sg (Technet Unit, Singapore)
malloco.ing.puc.cl (Catholic University of Chile, Santiago)
monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk (Imperial College, London, England)
mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
netfind.anu.edu.au (Australian National University, Canberra)
netfind.ee.mcgill.ca (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
netfind.if.usp.br (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
netfind.oc.com (OpenConnect Systems, Dallas, Texas)
netfind.vslib.cz (Liberec University of Technology, Czech Republic)
nic.nm.kr (Korea Network Information Center, Taejon, Korea)
nic.uakom.sk (Academy of Sciences, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)
redmont.cis.uab.edu (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
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Documentation:
There are three primary sets of information available about Netfind.
The first is a set of help information, available in the FTP
distribution as well as from the help screens available from any
Netfind server. This information includes a fairly complete set of
Frequently Asked Questions, as well as user help information and
pointers to other related information. The second is a
pre-publication version of a technical paper about Netfind, available
in
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/
Netfind.Gathering.ps.Z (compressed PostScript)
or
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/ASCII/
Netfind.Gathering.txt.Z (compressed ASCII).
An earlier paper is also available in
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/techreports/schwartz/PostScript/
White.Pages.ps.Z
or