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   connects to a server using TCP, and sends a one-line text "selector
   string".  The server responds by returning the item (a file, a
   directory listing, or a link to some other service) corresponding to
   the selector string and immediately closing the connection.  Items in
   directory listings are returned as a series of lines terminated by
   carriage-return line-feed.  Each item (line) is defined by a one-
   character tag to specify the item type, a display string or item-name
   that the client should display to the user, and a number of tab
   delimited fields to specify the selector string, host domain name and
   port number.  Because of its simple and connectionless nature, gopher
   servers make very minimal demands on their host machines and gopher
   clients are extremely easy to implement.

   The users view the Gopher world as a series of networked hierarchical
   directories much like a familiar filesystem.  However, the links
   define a graph rather than a simple rooted tree.  Links in the Gopher
   graph may define services other than simple files or directories;
   these include cso (qi) servers, telnet sessions, links to other



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   gopher servers, and links to gateway servers.

   The information provider's simplest view is that files and
   directories below a certain root directory on their machine are all
   visible and available for retrieval by gopher clients.  More features
   like long names, item types, links, and gateway services are
   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 RFC archives 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:        [e-mail]

  Postal Address:       Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center
                        152 Shepherd Labs
                        100 Union Street SE.
                        University of Minnesota
                        Minneapolis, MN 55455

  Telephone:            [phone]

  Fax:                  [phone]

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 Help Line:

  Name:                 Microcomputer HelpLine;
                        ask for The Internet Gopher Development Team



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  Email address:        [e-mail]

  Telephone:            USA: 612 MA MICRO ([phone])
                        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:              [e-mail]

  Administration:       [e-mail]

  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:              [e-mail]

  Administration:       [e-mail]

  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.



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  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:            [e-mail]

  Platform:                     UNIX.

  Primary Contact:
  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team
  Email address:                [e-mail]
  Telephone:                    [phone]

  Server software available from:
  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher
                                Information About Gopher
                                Gopher Software Distribution
  Via FTP:                      boombox.micro.umn.edu



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                                /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:            [e-mail]

  Platform:                     Macintosh.

  Primary Contact:
  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team
  Email address:                [e-mail]
  Telephone:                    [phone]

  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+.




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  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:            [e-mail]

  Platform:                     PC-DOS.

  Primary Contact:
  Name:                         The Internet Gopher Development Team
  Email address:                [e-mail]
  Telephone:                    [phone]

  Additional contacts:
  Name:                         Dennis Sherman
  Email address:                [e-mail]

  Name:                         Foteos Macrides
  Email address:                [e-mail]

  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.






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  General comments:
   Written by Chris McNeil <[e-mail]>, 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:            [e-mail]

  Platform:                     VMS

  Primary Contact:
  Name:                         J. Lance Wilkinson
  Email address:                [e-mail]
  Telephone:                    [phone]

  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
   [e-mail] mailing list.

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  Date completed or updated:    14 March, 1994
  By: Name:                     Mark McCahill
      Email address:            [e-mail]

  Platform:                     VM/CMS



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  Primary Contact:
  Name:                         Rick Troth
  Email address:                [e-mail]
  Telephone:

  Server software available from:
  Via Gopher:                   U of M Gopher