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Installation Instructions
The tar.Z file you just unpacked should contain the source code suitable for building a 3.X version of the Gopher binary.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, please note that the defaults database name has changed, so you may have to re-enter your default server in the Preferences.
Gopher uses two other public domain packages, Stuart and Ph. Both should be available on popular archive sites.
To build it, you may want to take a look at Parameters.h, and set
the variables DEFAULT_SERVER and DEFAULT_PORT to your default
Gopher server (if you don't understand this, don't worry about it).
You will need to build the play command in its Play directory. Just cd into the Play directory and type "make". Then move the play program to its final destination (normally /usr/local/bin).
Also, change the variable PlayCommand if you don't want to install the play program in /usr/local/bin. You won't be able to see (and play) sounds if there is no play program.
Then just type "make", and you should have a Gopher executable. You may decide to strip it to conserve disk space (type strip Gopher).
History:
Version 1.13 - changes by Tyler Gingrich tyler@vsc.com
Fixed the GopherClient init method to set the browsers delegate AFTER the nib loads rather than setting it in the nib. This allows the application to load by avoiding a browser load with incorrect browser cells (cells which don't respond to the setRemoteName: message).
Fixed all of the header imports to work with NEXTSTEP 3.X.
Rearranged the project to work with the 3.X ProjectBuilder.
Made a wide-variety of minor changes (mostly char * casts) to avoid or suppress all of the 'C' warnings during the compile cycle.
Changed the default connection from gopher.micro.umn.edu to gopher.tc.umn.edu since a connection to gopher.micro.unm.edu seems to always end up at the other machine. :-)
Tested the completed product on both Intel and Motorola hardware.
Version 1.12 - changes by Paul Lindner lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Fixed the client so that it can work with the new index-server protocol change.
Upped the size of some data structures so that it can better deal with WAIS gateways.
Version 1.11 - changes by Paul Lindner lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Made some cosemetic changes. Spiffed up some of the panels. Made
them look pretty.
Added an Item Type Field in the Item info panel.
Fixed the Help menu item to better reflect reality.
Fixed up the highlighting of search terms. Also added a Find menu
item so the user can find the relevant portions of the document, given
the search string. (I still need to implement a find previous
though.)
Version 1.1 - changes by David Lacey dlacey@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
Added a Stuart Speaker interface so that Stuart could be messaged rather than just Terminal when a Telnet session was called. Also added a preferences item for this. Stuart is better than Terminal because, unlike terminal, Stuart doesn't start a new app each time you fire up a telnet session.
Added an alert box to show you the login to use when you do a telnet and a login was specified by the server.
Added a speaker to Rex Pruess's Ph program to handle CSO Namservers.
Fixed the initial menu negotiation -- Gopher used to send two \n\r sequences to the server causing it to die under some conditions (noticbly on a SLIP link)
Changed the window from 3 small panes to 2 larger panes.
Enlarged the Courier font used to represent the Telnet sessions -- better
legiblity
Changed the Defaults database to look for "Gopher" rather than "UST_Gopher" to be more consistent with the NeXT defaults interface.
Added two new response code handlers:
Type 'R' for rlogin. Useful because the system can negotiate the login for the user transparently rather than having to give the user an alert box telling them what to type.
Type 'T' for tn3270 sessions. Useful for all those ugly blue boxes that just won't go away...
Changed default port from 150 to 70.
Gopher 1.0c release notes
Fixed an annoying problem with the index popup. Hitting the close button would cause the program to hang.
Added a spiffy icon.
Gopher 1.0b2 release notes
Fixed a minor but annoying bug : I forgot to switch the default shell
for Terminal to what it was.
Gopher 1.0b release notes
This is the 1.0 release of my Gopher client. It is by no means perfect,
but I am leaving the country and I wanted to release something that
worked. The main changes from 0.9b :
- help text has been beefed up
- main window uses a SplitView so you can resize the Browser and the Text
- allows telnet connections (but in a rather ugly way).
- allows sounds to be played. To do so, however, you must first install the "play" program.
Possible problems :
When getting text from the server, the client just tries to read
a large amount of data, under the assumption that the socket will
be closed when there is no more text. This might not be true (i.e.
the socket may not always be closed). The documentation of the
protocol is not entirely clear on this subject.
Still relatively little error checking. I'm trying to keep it simple.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.