Welcome to the Gopher Tutorials!
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The following files will help to understand how to use Gopher. The
different documents target different kinds of users with different
technical skill levels.
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Gopher Tutorials is in an alpha stage. You will see, which tutorials need
additional input. Please help us in making this complete! See below, how
to contribute.
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(TXT) Gopher Start.
Clients:
(TXT) Using your web browser to explore Gopherspace. (floodgap.com)
(DIR) The Overbite Project – gopher for firefox
(DIR) Legacy clients (floodgap.com)
(TXT) How to use sacc.
(TXT) How to use a gopherproxy.
(TXT) How to use gopher in firefox or chromium.
(TXT) How to use lynx or w3m for gopher.
(TXT) Commandline clients for gopher (curl, snarf ...)
(TXT) Other clients available.
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(TXT) Join the community on IRC.
(TXT) Join the mailinglist.
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(TXT) Brief introduction to the history of gopher.
Further links:
TODO: quux.org
TODO: floodgap.com
TODO: umn
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(TXT) How does Gopher protocol work?
(TXT) The specifics of menu type 7 (search).
(TXT) Additional menu types defined over time.
(TXT) Gopher+.
(TXT) The Gopher RFC1436
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(TXT) Setting up your own gopher server.
(TXT) Tips for publishing.
(TXT) Hints for writing dynamic applications.
Every server has some quirks or advantages you see in different files
described:
(TXT) Publishing on geomyidae
(TXT) Publishing on gophernicus
(TXT) Publishing on pygophered
How to find certain content:
(TXT) Gopherspace Porn
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You can check out the source of the gopher tutorials at:
(DIR) Gopher Tutorials stagit
If you have some addition or comment on the files presented here at the gopher
tutorials, come on IRC on #bitreich-en on bitreich IRC and tell us about your
change or send us directly the patch. A patch will speed up the integration of
your proposed changes. All input is welcome! Thanks!
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