<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article lang="&language;" id="gopher"> <title>gopher</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Lauri.Watts;</author> <author>&tde-authors;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </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>