On Sun, 5 Feb 1995, Harry Doss wrote: > "Gopher" is a format for storing and making available information on the > internet. It also refers to client software used to retrieve this > information. If you have full internet access, you should have been provided > with a gopher client (software.) I use a program called hgopher. There's also TurboGopher -- I think it's for Macintoshes. > A World Wide Web browser is a program that can access gopher servers as well > as "Web sites." They also allow you to find anything on the internet if you > know it's unique address, called a URL for Uniform Resource Locator. > Netscape is one such program, available at ftp://ftp.mcom.com/netscape/. Or you could get Mosaic from ftp ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in /Web/Mosaic/Windows for PCs or /Web/Mosaic/Mac for Macs. There are several other files you'll want to get -- including one that's about 2.2MB, GOOD LUCK! As you've probably heard, Microsoft has just signed a deal with NCSA whereby MS will include Mosaic in its software in the next year or so. But it's free for the taking so go for it! LYNX is another browser that runs in Unix -- for those of you with full Internet access. Ron Torrella Self-explanatory - [A]bort [C]ancel [R]etry University of Illinois Inexplicable - + + +
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