Category : Information about the Internet from the early 1990's
Archive : GOPHERN.ZIP
Filename : GOPHERN.07

Output of file : GOPHERN.07 contained in archive : GOPHERN.ZIP

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 08:10:19 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: #7 A CMS Gopher Client - Help file
To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN
Status: RO

NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'

Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland

GOPHER HELP

At my System prompt I type the word "gopher gopher.uiuc.edu" and retrieve the
following menu:

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Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.2 gopher.uiuc.edu
1/22 More

Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
Campus Announcements (last updated 8/18/93)
What's New?(last update: 8/17/93)
Information about Gopher
Keyword Search of Gopher Menus
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Information
Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information
Computer Documentation, Software, and Information
Libraries and Reference Information
Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather
Other Gopher and Information Servers
Phone Books (ph)
Internet File Server (ftp) Sites
SPECIAL: FLOOD RELIEF INFORMATION (ILLINOIS CES)
IMPORTANT!NEW TERMINAL SERVER CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT AUGUST

1= Help 2= Open 3= Return 4= Print 5= Save/Rcv 6= Find
7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Bookmark 10= Booklist 11= 12= Quit
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The bottom of the Gopher menu has options from which you can choose. Help
can be selected by pressing the PF1 key from most points in Gopher. Here is the
help screen:

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CMS Gopher - Viewing Directories

You are presented with a menu of items. These may be files, directories
of files, links to other Gopher servers, or other special functions.
To "open" an item, place your cursor on or under the item then press .

Before each item is symbolic text explaining what type of item it is:

(nothing), this item is a plain-text file
this item leads to another directory or Gopher
this item leads to a CSO/qi Phonebook search
this item leads to a keyword search
this item represents a telnet session

3 Responses to “Category : Information about the Internet from the early 1990's
Archive : GOPHERN.ZIP
Filename : GOPHERN.07
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Daniel says:

January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
Joshie says:

March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
DiskingRound says:

January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/

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