From @UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:owner-gophern@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Oct 19 13:47:26 1993 Received: from ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu by ccat.sas.upenn.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA16667; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 13:47:21 -0400 Message-Id: <9310191747.AA16667@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU by UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7193; Tue, 19 Oct 93 13:33:06 EDT Received: from UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UBVM) by UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7210; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 10:32:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 10:11:07 EDT Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' Sender: Let's Go Gopherin' From: Jim Gerland - Network User Support Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo Subject: #2 Getting Connected To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN Status: RO NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN' Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland GETTING CONNECTED There are several ways to get information from a Gopher server. On a Unix, VMS, or CMS system, if a Gopher client is installed, preferably by the systems' administrator, all you have to do is type the word "gopher" at the system prompt. The machine immediately takes over and goes out to retrieve a menu from a Gopher server-the first door to what is called "Gopherspace" You may have a DOS or windows or Mac menuing system that allows you to click on a Gopher item that gives you direct connection or an X window system that will start at a command. It depends on your system and if a Gopher client has been installed. Networks, however, do crash from time to time, or are down for maintenance, etc, so using a substitute Gopher may be needed at some point. If you have a gopher client on your system you may want to go directly to a specific Gopher server. You use the word "gopher," then the remote machine address to get directly into a Gopher server. You will then receive a menu from the remote server. You do need a gopher client and a TCP/IP connection in order for this to work. Here are addresses of several remote machines: Name=Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher Type=0 Port=70 Path=0/Welcome Host=vixen.cso.uiuc.edu (I'll use the above Gopher in my examples.) Name=University of Minnesota Gopher Server, Home of the Gopher Host=gopher.tc.umn.edu Name=InterNIC-- Internet's new $12 million Network Information Center Host=gopher.ds.internic.net Name=Merit -- Merit/NSFNET Information Services (Internet Info) Host=nic.merit.edu Name=UB Wings - State Uninversity of New York at Buffalo CWIS Host=wings.buffalo.edu Name=University of Michigan GOpherBLUE Service Host=gopher.uis.itd.umich.edu Name=University of North Texas Host=gopher.unt.edu Name=Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server Host=info.hed.apple.com Name=CERFnet Network Information Services Host=gopher.cerf.net Name=CNUCE Institute - National Research Council of Italy, Pisa, Host=gopher.cnuce.cnr.it Name=Australian National University Host=info.anu.edu.au Name=Ben Gurion University Gopher (Israel) Host=gopher.bgu.ac.il Name=CSCS - Swiss Scientific Computing Center, (CH) Host=pobox.cscs.ch Name=DENet Danish Academic Network, (DK) Host=gopher.denet.dk Name=EUnet in Germany, (DE) Host=ftp.Germany.eu.net If you don't have a Gopher client installed on your local machine, you can use telnet to access a Gopher client. Depending on your operating system, you can use the word "telnet" and a remote machine address to access Gopher logging in as "gopher", in most cases. Your telnet may work differently. You may telnet from a menu system or from an icon depending on your system. Here are some publicly accessible telnet gopher sites. Hostname IP# Login Area ------------------------- --------------- ------ ------------- 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 gopher.sunet.se 192.36.125.2 gopher Europe 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 ecnet.ec 157.100.45.2 gopher Ecuador tn3270 Public Logins: Hostname IP# Login Area ------------------------- --------------- ------ ------------- pubinfo.ais.umn.edu 128.101.109.1 -none- North America It is recommended that you run gopher from a Gopher client which is free over the Internet. The client/server based Gopher program is more efficient and saves network resources compared to telneting to a site. We will talk about getting and installing a client later in the Course. There are other ways to access Gopher. For example, the World Wide Web (WWW) will give you access to Gopherspace. If you have a client installed it is most likely pointed at a preferred gopher server for your institution. The first method of typing "gopher" will get you there in the easiest way possible. Richard J. Smith smithr@clp2.clpgh.org The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Jim Gerland gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology