PC Gopher v1.20

PC Gopher is an internet Gopher Protocol client designed  to  run
on  IBM  and  compatible  microcomputers.

In order for PC Gopher to talk to your ethernet card,  you must
run  a  copy  of  the  appropriate  packet.  A small sample of the available
packet  drivers  (from  Clarkson  College) is included  in   this
directory;  if  you  can't find one that works with your ethernet
card the complete collection is available via anonymous ftp  from
sun.soe.clarkson.edu, in the directory /pub/ka9q.

Version Notes

As of version 1.1, you no longer need the separate TCP/IP driver
called IBMTCP.DVR.  If you had an older version of PC Gopher, you
may have a copy of this file; just delete it, since it's no longer
necessary.

As of this version, the format of the configuration file CONFIG.IGP has
changed.  Delete any old copies of this file BEFORE running PC Gopher
for the first time.

Configuration

To run the Gopher program, you must  provide  some  site-specific
configuration  information.   To enter this information, choose
"Configure" from the Options menu; after you have filled in all of the
fields (described below),  the  Gopher  will  write  all  of  the
information to disk in a textfile called CONFIG.IGP.

The required config info is:

        1. Name of a gopher server.  You are welcome to  use  our
           server, which goes by the name of 
		   gopher.micro.umn.edu

        2. Port number that the gopher server  listens  on.   For
           our gopher server, this is currently port 150.

If you don't have a BOOTP server, you must also enter:

        3. The IP address of your  nameserver.   You  must  enter
           this information in order for the Gopher to resolve names
           into IP addresses.

			4. The IP address  of  your  default  gateway.   This  is
			sometimes referred to as the "default route" or 
			"default router".

   		5. The IP address of your microcomputer.

   		6. The netmask in use on your campus.

If you are on a slow or busy network, you may need to adjust the following
timeouts upwards; if not, you can just use the defaults:

   		7. The number of seconds to wait for input before timing out.

   		8. The number of seconds  to  wait  for  a  connection  to  be
      	completely set up.

   		9. The number of seconds  to  wait  for  name  lookups  to  be
      	completed.

Once you have entered all of the information, click on  the  "OK"
button  (or  use  the  tab  key  to  tab until the "OK" button is
higlighted, and hit the return key).  The program will write  its
config file to the current directory, and you're ready to go!


Running The Program

To start the program, choose "New Gopher" from the File menu.  As
soon  as  the  Gopher  window  opens, the program will attempt to
connect to the server you've specified in the config dialog  box;
it  will  request a listing of the root level of the server.  The
listing that you get back will look like this:

<F> About Gopher  
<D> Administrative Information
<D> Academic Research Tools 
<I> Search everything

The first character of  each  line  indicates  whether  the  line
refers  to  a  file, a subdirectory, or an index server.  You can
double-click with the mouse on any file or  subdirectory  to  see
its  contents  (or  use the arrow keys to choose an entry and hit
the return key); if you choose an index  server, a dialog box
will pop up, allowing you to enter a search string.  To start the
search, click on the "OK" button (or hit the return key).

At  any  time,  you  can  navigate  back  up   a   heirarchy   of
subdirectories by clicking on the "Go Back" button (or tabbing until
the button is highlighted, and then hitting the return key).


Bug Reports, Suggestions, Etc.

Your suggestions for the PC Gopher client are  welcomed,  as  are
bug reports.  Send mail to:

                gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu

If you wish, we will add you to the gopher-news mailing list, and you
will get news about new releases via email.  To request to be added to the
list, send mail to gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu.