re is there an ftp achive for usgs terrain data in article c dj wl cs columbia edu olasov cs columbia edu benjamin olasov writes in article apr welchgate welch jhu edu danj welchgate welch jhu edu dan jacobson writes a lot of interesting stuff about gopher deleted if you ve never heard of gopher don t worry it s free and on the net write me a note if you d like information on how to get started best of luck dan jacobson danj welchgate welch jhu edu i ve heard of it but lost the intro posting that came out a while back could you post it again i think it s of general interest ben ben olasov olasov cs columbia edu this is a heavily edited modified version of the gopher faq intended to give people just starting with gopher enough information to get a client and jump into gopher space a complete version can be obtained as described below once you have a gopher client point it at merlot welch jhu edu and welcome to gopher space dan jacobson danj welchgate welch jhu edu common questions and answers about the internet gopher a client server protocol for making a world wide information service with many implementations posted to comp infosystems gopher comp answers and news answers every two weeks the most recent version of this faq can be gotten through gopher or via anonymous ftp rtfm mit edu pub usenet news answers gopher faq those without ftp access should send e mail to mail server rtfm mit edu with send usenet news answers finding sources in the body to find out how to do ftp by e mail list of questions in the gopher faq q what is gopher q where can i get gopher software q what do i need to access gopher q where are there publicly available logins for gopher q who develops gopher software q what is the relationship between gopher and wais www ftp q are papers or articles describing gopher available q what is veronica q what is available for biology q what is gopher a the internet gopher client server provides a distributed information delivery system around which a world campus wide information system cwis can readily be constructed while providing a delivery vehicle for local information gopher facilitates access to other gopher and information servers throughout the world q where can i get gopher software a via anonymous ftp to boombox micro umn edu look in the directory pub gopher q what do i need to access gopher a you will need a gopher client program that runs on your local pc or workstation there are clients for the following systems the directory following the name is the location of the client on the anonymous ftp site boombox micro umn edu in the directory pub gopher unix curses emacs pub gopher unix gopher tar z xwindows athena pub gopher unix xgopher tar z xwindows motif pub gopher unix moog xwindows xview pub gopher unix xvgopher macintosh hypercard pub gopher macintosh turbogopher old versions macintosh application pub gopher macintosh turbogopher dos w clarkson driver pub gopher pc client nextstep pub gopher next vm cms pub gopher rice cms or pub gopher viegopher vms pub gopher vms os pub gopher os mvs xa pub gopher mvs many other clients and servers have been developed by others the following is an attempt at a comprehensive list a microsoft windows winsock client the gopher book sunsite unc edu pub micro pc stuff ms windows winsock goph tbk zip a macintosh application macgopher ftp cc utah edu pub gopher macintosh another macintosh application gopherapp ftp bio indiana edu util gopher gopherapp a port of the unix curses client for dos with pc tcp oac hsc uth tmc edu public dos misc dosgopher exe a port of the unix curses client for pc nfs bcm tmc edu nfs gopher exe a beta version of the pc gopher client for novell s lan workplace for dos lennon itn med umich edu dos gopher a vms decwindows client for use with wollongong or ucx job acs ohio state edu xgopher client share note these macintosh clients require mactcp most of the above clients can also be fetched via a gopher client itself put the following on a gopher server type host boombox micro umn edu port path name gopher software distribution or point your gopher client at boombox micro umn edu port and look in the gopher directory there are also a number of public telnet login sites available the university of minnesota operates one on the machine consultant micro umn edu see q for more information about this it is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public telnet login sites a client uses the custom features of the local machine mouse scroll bars etc a local client is also faster q where are there publicly available logins ie places to telnet to in order to get a taste of gopher for gopher a here is a short list use the site closest to you to minimize network lag telnet public logins hostname ip login area consultant micro umn edu gopher north america gopher uiuc edu gopher north america panda uiowa edu panda north america gopher sunet se gopher europe info anu edu au info australia gopher chalmers se gopher sweden tolten puc cl gopher south america ecnet ec gopher ecuador gan ncc go jp gopher japan it is recommended that you run the client software instead of logging into the public login sites a client uses the custom features of the local machine mouse scroll bars etc and gives faster response furthermore many of the basic features of clients saving a file to your hard drive printing a file to a local printer viewing images retrieving files from ftp sites etc are not available by the telnet logins q who develops gopher software a gopher was originally developed in april by the university of minnesota microcomputer workstation networks center to help our campus find answers to their computer questions it has since grown into a full fledged world wide information system used by a large number of sites in the world many people have contributed to the project too numerous to count the people behind the much of the gopher software can be reached via e mail at gopher boombox micro umn edu or via paper mail internet gopher developers union st se minneapolis mn usa or via fax at q what is the relationship between gopher and wais www ftp a gopher is intimately intertwined with these two other systems as shipped the unix gopher server has the capability to search local wais indices query remote wais servers and funnel the results to gopher clients query remote ftp sites and funnel the results to gopher clients be queried by www world wide web clients either using built in gopher querying or using native http querying q are papers or articles describing gopher available a gopher has a whole chapter devoted to it in the whole internet ed kroll o reilly editors note great book go out and buy a bunch the internet passport northwestnet s guide to our world online by jonathan kochmer and northwestnet published by northwestnet bellevue wa pp isbn contact info passport nwnet net or a students guide to unix by harley hahn publisher mcgraw hill inc isbn other references include the internet gopher connexions july interop exploring internet gopherspace the internet society news v n you can subscribe to the internet society news by sending e mail to isoc nri reston va us the internet gopher protocol proceedings of the twenty third ietf cnri section internet gopher proceedings of canadian networking the internet gopher internet getting started sri international section tools help internet users discover on line treasures computerworld july tcp ip network administration o reilly balakrishan b oct spigopher making spires databases accessible through the gopher protocol spires fall workshop chapel hill north carolina tomer c information technology standards for libraries journal of the american society for information science sept q what is veronica a veronica very easy rodent oriented net wide index to computerized archives veronica offers a keyword search of most gopher server menu titles in the entire gopher web as archie is to ftp archives veronica is to gopherspace a veronica search produces a menu of gopher items each of which is a direct pointer to a gopher data source because veronica is accessed through a gopher client it is easy to use and gives access to all types of data supported by the gopher protocol to try veronica select it from the other gophers menu on minnesota s gopher server or point your gopher at name veronica search menu items in most of gopherspace type port path veronica host futique scs unr edu q what is available for biology a there is an incredible amount of software data and information availble to biologists now by gopher here is a brief list of the biological databases that you can search via gopher bdt tropical data base searches biotechnet buyers guide online catalogues for biology tel search protein data bank headers chlamydomonas genetics center crystallization database hgmp databases probes and primers museum of paleontology type specimen index mycdb mycobacterium database search drosophila flybase indiana search genbank swiss prot pir pdb search aatdb an arabidopsis thaliana database search acedb a caenorhabditis elegans database search compoundkb a metabolic compound database search databases at welchlab vectors promoters nrl d est omi search embl search genbank search genbank search genbank updates search limb search pir search pir keyword species search prosite search rebase restriction enzyme database search swiss prot search tfd search the c elegans strain list search the dna database of japan search the ec enzyme database search the graingenes database search the maize database cloning vectors plasmids phage etc epd eukaryotic promoter database est expressed sequence tag database human west expressed sequence tag database c elegans kabat database of proteins of immunological interest nrl d protein sequence structure database omim online mendelian inheritance in man seqanalref sequence analysis bibliographic reference data ban search rebase restriction enzyme database search the ec enzyme database search the rodent section of genbank database taxonomy genbank swiss prot retrieve full pdb entries by accession number search for all researchers funded by nih search for genome researchers funded by doe search for researchers funded by nsf search for researchers funded by the usda e mail addresses of crystallographers e mail addresses of yeast reasearchers phonebooks around the world search and retrieve software for all computers search and retrieve macintosh software search and retrieve dos software search and retrieve gnu software search and retrieve software for biology search for agricultural software search and retrieve graphics software and data search and retrieve all online perl scripts ftp sites for biology archives for software and data and the list goes on this is just the beginning
