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]>
<article lang="&language;" id="gopher">
<title>gopher</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author>&Lauri.Watts;</author>
<author>&tde-authors;</author>
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</authorgroup>
<releaseinfo>&tde-release-version;</releaseinfo>
<date>Reviewed: &tde-release-date;</date>
<copyright>
<year>2010</year>
<holder>&Lauri.Watts;</holder>
</copyright>
<copyright>
<year>&tde-copyright-date;</year>
<holder>&tde-team;</holder>
</copyright>
<abstract>
<para>
This handbook describes the gopher protocol.
</para>
</abstract>
<keywordset>
<keyword>TDE</keyword>
<keyword>gopher</keyword>
<keyword>protocol</keyword>
</keywordset>
</articleinfo>
<para>
<command>gopher</command> began as a distributed campus information service
at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information
on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para>
<para>
Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven
interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another
menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you
originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host).
Gopher can <quote>tunnel</quote> from one Gopher to another without the
user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps
the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the
<quote>illusion</quote> of a single, large set of interconnected menus.
</para>
<para>
Gopher permits the user to record an item's location in a
<quote>bookmark</quote> thereby allowing users to follow a
<quote>bookmark</quote> directly to a particular item without
searching the menu system. Gopher menus are not standardized, inasmuch as
each Gopher server is individually determined.
</para>
<para>
Original source:
<ulink
url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm"> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm</ulink>
</para>
</article>
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