Unix gopher 1.03 now available

Paul Lindner

unread,

Sep 2, 1992, 5:27:02 PM9/2/92

to

Gopher for UNIX, server and client and other goodies is now available.

To get it:

anonymous ftp to boombox.micro.umn.edu, get the fine
/pub/gopher/Unix/gopher1.03.tar.Z

Use gopher to go connect to boombox (one way is through Info about
Gopher, Gopher Software Distribution, Unix, gopher1.03.tar.Z)

Mostly bug fixes, with a few nifty new features, including binary
transfer for WAIS stuff, support for type I (the official gopher image
type.).

I've also added a nifty indexing script in misc/Indexing that works
quite well for making WAIS indices.

Here are the changes:

Client Changes from v1.02 to v1.03
----------------------------------

The client can now interrupt searches using Control-c. However this
can be buggy. The current position on the screen isn't quite updated
properly, and things will probably break if you're reading a long
directory....

Gopher now looks in the "Name" instead of the "path" to find a default
name to save in.. Works for WAIS docid things.

Client can now view images. There is a new environment variable
GOPHER_IMAGE. It's a little different than the patch that's already
out there.

Searches in a menu (the / command) are now case insensitive.

PagerCommand is now saved. PAGER still takes precedence, though.

Fixed bogus out of memory error when mailing a file.

Added casts to each and every malloc();

Changed name of PC binary files to PCBIN instead of HQX, confusing at
best...

Server Changes from v1.02 to v1.03
----------------------------------

Added lost+found and lib to the list of directories mapped out.
Eventually this will be replaced by a gopherd.conf file.

gopherls will now list out the correct host, instead of NULL.

Binary files now work for the ftp-gateway in the server.
(mahi...@vogon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) Added Image and sound support
to the gateway as well.

You no longer have to play with the Path= portion in a .cap entry if
you want something to be treated as a binary (9) or Search (7).
The server does it right.

Server recognizes gifs as Type I irregardless of extension.

WAIS searches can now return binary type data. For now it's just
returned as Type 9. However Type I and s can be hacked in pretty
easily.

David Datta

unread,

Sep 2, 1992, 9:40:06 PM9/2/92

to

I have grabbed the new Gopher sources and made the links to ir & ui and
tried to make Gopher with WAIS and I get a bunch of redeclaration
errors. I remember a discussion about this but don't remember the
outcome.

(I am using Ultrix 4.2a)
--
-Dave da...@cs.uwp.edu: Man made machines make music for the man. Now
machines make music while the man makes plans. A second generation, a
generation lost. While the man prepares for the holocaust.- A Flock of Seagulls

Energy Management Assoc

unread,

Sep 8, 1992, 8:39:22 AM9/8/92

to

In article <mudhoney.micro.umn.edu> lin...@boombox.micro.umn.edu. writes:
>Gopher for UNIX, server and client and other goodies is now available.
>

Does the HTML part of Gopher work correctly? I can't get it to work,
and I read somewhere that it wasn't yet a part of the Gopher system,
but the code has been there for a while now. By HTML, I mean the WWW
hypertext capabilities.

Thanks for any info,
James Morse

Energy Management Associates
The Utilities Division of EDS