FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: My Gopher Hole

[Thom Hance <thom_h_97@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Thanks Sam! That's all I needed to know.

Thom 'DearOldDad' Hance, Dinosaur


--- "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Hello Thom:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:26:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> > Hello Sam!
> 
> > Is there a Windoze version (IE or Opera or Foxfire) or can I FTP to/from
> > it?  When I tried Opera she said I needed a proxy server to go through.
> 
> > Thanks.
> 
> > Thom Hance, 'DearOldDad' - a DP dinosaur from the 70's
> 
> MSIE offers no support whatsoever for doing gopher URL's.  Opera
> does not support them directly.  As far as I know you cannot ftp
> to a gopher site.  Gopher and ftp are two entirely different types
> of internet protocols.  Different RFC's apply to each protocol type.
> 
> Browsers that provide direct gopher support are Arachne, Lynx, and
> Mozilla Firefox.  Both the DOS and the Windows versions of Lynx
> will work for doing gopher URL's.  There also are some very ancient
> versions of Netscape that can do gopher URL's.  If you don't want to
> use a browser for going to a gopher URL you can use a stand-alone
> gopher client.  I have a freeware gopher client for Windows available
> for download at my gopher site.  It works fine, but it is somewhat
> difficult to set up and configure.  Also available from my gopher
> site is the latest and greatest Lynx version for Windows, version
> 2.8.5, release 1.  You can access gopher URL's with Arachne without
> even having to install any APM's or plugins and without even having
> to mess with your setup and configuration options.  The same applies
> also to the Lynx DOS and Lynx Windows versions.  There also exists
> a freeware internet program for DOS named Minuet.  Minuet will do
> email and it also will do gopher URL's.  I used to use Minuet with
> my former ISP.  Minuet doesn't work very well with my current ISP.
> 
> When accessing a gopher site the internet address line starts simply
> with "gopher://";.  No "http" and no "www".  There are lots of gopher
> URL's on the internet, but they are not http sites and they are not a
> part of the world-wide-web.  Gopher holes are cool underground places.
> The paranoids who looking for you and who are out to get you are not
> smart enough to imagine that they might be able to find you hiding out
> in a gopher hole.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sam Heywood
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