=============================================================================== RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA GOPHER =============================================================================== NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN' Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland .GOPHERRC AND MORE BOOKMARKS About as technical as I'll get on Gopher will be to take a look at the .gopherrc file. The .gopherrc file is a hidden file that contains information about your Gopher client. The particular information I'm concerned about in this session is the bookmark information in the .gopherrc file. On my UNIX machine I can see my .gopherrc file by using "ls" to list the file and add the "-a" and "-l" flags to list the hidden files in a long version. I'll pipe it through a more command. ********** icarus.lis[3] % ls -al |more total 2447 drwx--S--- 14 rjs 4096 Nov 8 08:35 . drwxr-xr-x973 root 15872 Oct 28 17:46 .. -rw------- 1 rjs 838 Nov 5 07:31 .Xauthority -rw------- 1 rjs 69 Jun 9 1991 .Xdefaults -rw------- 1 rjs 615 Oct 14 09:48 .addressbook -rw-r--r-- 1 rjs 622 May 21 1991 .cshrc -rw------- 1 rjs 499 Aug 30 13:30 .desksetdefaults drwx------ 2 rjs 512 Sep 19 12:33 .elm -rw------- 1 rjs 124 Jun 9 1991 .filemgrrc -rw------- 1 rjs 1402 Nov 6 10:17 .gopherrc -rw------- 1 rjs 1303 Nov 6 09:12 .gopherrc~ -rwx------ 1 rjs 162 Jul 1 12:35 .login -rw-r--r-- 1 rjs 6 Mar 7 1991 .logout -rwxr-xr-x 1 rjs 820 Sep 19 12:38 .mailrc -rw------- 1 rjs 4322 Aug 30 14:42 .mosaic-global-history ********** There are two .gopherrc files listed. One is a backup. I'll read the .gopherrc file by using the more command. ********** icarus.lis[2] % more .gopherrc Pagercmd: less Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac Telnetcmd: telnet Mailcmd: mail Playcmd: play -v 40 - TN3270cmd: tn3270 MIMEcmd: metamail -P Imagecmd: display bookmarks: # Type=1 Name=Library administration Path=1/.ads/.ads-by-group/.admin/.libraries Host=chronicle.merit.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Library science Path=1/.ads/.ads-by-group/.faculty/.professional/.library Host=chronicle.merit.edu Port=70 # --More--(28%) ********** Besides some information on my Gopher client there is information about the bookmarks I've created. The Type, Name, Path, Host and Port are all information on a distant Gopher much of which is needed to connect to a distant Gopher. This file is a text file so I can go into it with a text editor or wordprocessor and rearrange the order of my bookmark. We cannot have more than one bookmark. However, we can rename the .gopherrc file, then create a new .gopherrc file and bookmark when we next enter Gopher. I can rename .gopherrc files to gopher1, gopher2, gopher3, gophern so that I have an unlimited number of gopher files. Then when I want to use a particular gopher file I'll replace the .gopherrc with that file. This past summer I gave an assignment to my class at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Library and Information Science to create bookmarks in subject areas of their choosing. I thought you might get an idea from some of the finished bookmarks on how you might use Gopher to help in your information navigating. The only aberration in these bookmarks is that I asked the student to try to give a variety of Gopher items in their Gopher demonstration. REFERENCE TOOLS Lora-Lynn Rice decided to create a personal reference bookmark. She decided that all good reference sources should have a dictionary and Thesauri as well as several indexing and abstracting sources. Ready references such as Cia World Fact Book are included, and she also includes electronic journals and Gopher searching using Veronica. Here is Lora-lynn's Gopher screen with the Gopher bookmark technical information. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks --> 1. Search titles in Gopherspace using Veronica/ 2. Discipline specific references/ 3. Library of Congress Gopher/ 4. Electronic journal collection from CICnet/ 5. Webster's Dictionary (login as "webster") 6. Roget's Thesaurus (Published in 1911)/ 7. Online Dictionary of Computing/ 8. Search for Jargon 9. Acronym dictionary (keyword search) 10. AskERIC / 11. CARL System (Colorado Alliance Research Libraries) 12. All WAIS indexes/ 13. U.S. Telephone Area Codes/ 14. Search Geographic Name Server by City or ZIP code 15. US Government Agency Phone Directories/ 16. Congressional Directories/ 17. Today's Events in History. 18. CIA World Fact Book 1991/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** ********** >From loralynn@lis.pitt.edu Mon Nov 8 09:26:24 1993 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:52:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Lora-Lynn Rice To: richard smith Subject: my bookmark #Lora-Lynn Rice REFERENCE TOOLS BOOKMARK #Last Altered:August 11, 1993 #loralynn@icarus.pitt.edu Pagercmd: less Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac Telnetcmd: telnet Mailcmd: mail Playcmd: /usr/local/bin/play TN3270cmd: tn3270 MIMEcmd: metamail -P Imagecmd: display bookmarks: # Type=1 Name=Search titles in Gopherspace using Veronica Path=1/veronica Host=veronica.scs.unr.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Discipline specific references Path=1/.libraries/.subject Host=gopher.Princeton.EDU Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Library of Congress Gopher Path= Host=marvel.loc.gov Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Electronic journal collection from CICnet Path=1/e-serials Host=gopher.cic.net Port=70 # Type=8 Name=Webster's Dictionary (login as "webster") Path= Host=CHEM.UCSD.EDU Port=23 # Type=1 Name=Roget's Thesaurus (Published in 1911) Path=1/Gutenberg/roget Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Online Dictionary of Computing Path= Host=wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk Port=70 # Type=7 Name=Search for Jargon Path=waissrc:/.wais/jargon.src Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu Port=70 # Type=7 Name=Acronym dictionary (keyword search) Path=7/miscellany/acronyms/.index/index Host=info.mcc.ac.uk Port=70 # Type=1 Name=AskERIC Path= Host=ericir.syr.edu Port=70 # Type=8 Name=CARL System (Colorado Alliance Research Libraries) Path=choose option 3; use //EXIT to quit Host=pac.carl.org Port=0 # Type=1 Name=All WAIS indexes Path=1 /WAISes/Everything Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=U.S. Telephone Area Codes Path=areacode Host=ashpool.micro.umn.edu Port=4324 # Type=7 Name=Search Geographic Name Server by City or ZIP code Path=geo search Host=mudhoney.micro.umn.EDU Port=4324 # Type=1 Name=US Government Agency Phone Directories Path=1/Government Information/USA/phone Host=econ.tucson.az.us Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Congressional Directories Path=1/congress/directory Host=rs5.loc.gov Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Today's Events in History Path=0/today Host=uts.mcc.ac.uk Port=70 # Type=1 Name=CIA World Fact Book 1991 Path=1/Gutenberg/factbook Host=joeboy.micro.umn.edu Port=70 #Created by Lora-Lynn Rice loralynn@icarus.lis.pitt.edu Lora-Lynn Rice loralynn@lis.pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh-SLIS I may not know all the answers, but I know where to find them. ;) ********** Kelly Hughbanks, Carole Lombardo, Polly Ostertrico, and Libreta Schiappa combined on a Wildlife and Environmental Concerns bookmark. Theirs includes a picture Gopher item and a directory containing sound files. Your machine will have to be able to use these files if you want to hear the calling of the whales or see the graphic photos of endangered species. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks --> 1. Search gopherspace using veronica at University of Pisa: endangere../ 2. Australian Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)/ 3. Ecology and Evolution/ 4. habitat_loss_consequences. 5. Rare, vulnerable and endangered species and Land Use 6. Extinct Is Forever - NWF Endangered Species Newsletter/ 7. National Wildlife Federation/ 8. Environment and Ecology/ 9. environment-newsgroups: Archive of a number of environment- rela.. 10. Discipline-specific material/ 11. whales/ 12. Title : FEATURE STORY: TALES FROM THE GRAVE-- WHALE BONES SUPPORT... 13. Title : NSF FUNDS RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF HURRICAN... Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** ********** >From llsst11@lis.pitt.edu Mon Nov 8 09:26:43 1993 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 19:15:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Libreta Schiappa To: Richard Smith Cc: Libreta Schiappa Subject: gopher-environmental concerns Pagercmd: less Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac Telnetcmd: telnet Mailcmd: mail Playcmd: play -v 40 - TN3270cmd: tn3270 MIMEcmd: metamail -P Imagecmd: display bookmarks: # Type=1 Name=Search gopherspace using veronica at University of Pisa: endangered species Path= endangered species Host=gopher.psi.com Port=2347 # Type=1 Name=Australian Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) Path= Host=155.187.10.12 Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Ecology and Evolution Path= Host=kaos.erin.gov.au Port=70 # Type=0 Name=habitat_loss_consequences Path=0/eforum/jour_undergrad_research/planet_life/habitat_loss_co nsequences Host=csf.Colorado.EDU Port=70 # Type=I Name=Rare, vulnerable and endangered species and Land Use Path=9/overview/images/rare.rs Host=kaos.erin.gov.au Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Extinct Is Forever - NWF Endangered Species Newsletter Path=1/information/natint/nwfstuff/newsletter Host=ecosys.drdr.Virginia.EDU Port=70 # Type=1 Name=National Wildlife Federation Path=1/information/natint/nwfstuff Host=ecosys.drdr.Virginia.EDU Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Environment and Ecology Path=1/Subject/Environment Host=chico.rice.edu Port=70 # Type=7 Name=environment-newsgroups: Archive of a number of environment- related e-conferences Path=waissrc:/allWAIS/experiment/all/environment-newsgroups Host=munin.ub2.lu.se Port=70 # Type=1 Name=Discipline-specific material Path=1/library/disciplines Host=dewey.lib.ncsu.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=whales Path=1/../.pub/multimedia/sun-sounds/whales Host=sunsite.unc.edu Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Title : FEATURE STORY: TALES FROM THE GRAVE-- WHALE BONES SUPPORT DEEP-SEA Path=R0-6478-/.index/ftp/NSF/press/pr9299 Host=stis.nsf.gov Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Title : NSF FUNDS RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF HURRICANE ANDREW Path=R0-6774-/.index/ftp/NSF/press/pr936 Host=stis.nsf.gov Port=70 ********** Here is a musical information Gopher bookmark from Ricky Prado. ********** >From prado@lis.pitt.edu Mon Nov 8 09:21:46 1993 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 13:53:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Ricky Prado To: richard smith Bookmarks 1. Lute files 2. lute.archives 3. Tablature-Chords for Guitar 4. guitar 5. Ragtime guitar books 6. Ragtime for fingerstyle guitar The lute files and lute archives comes from a server in Dartmouth who is involved with teaching lute. The lute files contains much dialog on problems with the accurate performance of music on the lute while the lute.archives has several tablatures of pieces that haven't been in print. The rest of the files pertain to popular aspects of the guitar. Tablature-Chords for Guitar is an encyclopedia of different chord forms found on the instrument, which would be of great use to a beginner. The two bookmarks dealing with Ragtime guitar did not have anything in them but a note saying that some tablatures would be included soon. My favourite bookmark is the one simply marked "guitar". It has several menus after this one and contains many songs by recent recording artists in tablature form. It will be invaluable to me as a teacher because transcription is a lengthy process. Now if a student tells me he wants to learn "Ten Years Gone" by Led Zeppelin, all I have to do is pull up the guitar menu, look under Led Zeppelin and see if the song has already been transcribed. If it has (and it has), print it. I have some tunes that I have transcribed that I will post as soon as I have time. Ricky Prado. ********** The final example will be by Clete Schirra, Jon Theisen, Alison Diraly and Rebecca Wilkins. A Children's Literature and Resource for Teaching K-12 Kids was the subject of their bookmark. ********** Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11 Bookmarks --> 1. About the Children's Literature Center. 2. AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/ 3. KIDSPHERE-List/ 4. Selected American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings (1991). 5. Children's Books with Blind or Visually Impaired Characters. 6. Picture Books for Middle Schoolers. 7. Search All Literature Reviews 8. Introduction to KIDLINK for Educators. 9. K-12 Networking/ 10. Children's Literature: A Library Timesaver. Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1 ********** >From theisen@lis.pitt.edu Mon Nov 8 09:26:58 1993 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 17:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Jon Theisen To: richard smith Pagercmd: less Printercmd: lpr -Plwmac Telnetcmd: telnet Mailcmd: mail Playcmd: /usr/local/bin/play TN3270cmd: tn3270 MIMEcmd: metamail -P Imagecmd: display bookmarks: # Type=0 Name=About the Children's Literature Center Path=0/Library.of.Congress/about.LC/reading.rooms/Childrens.lit Host=seq1.loc.gov Port=70 # Type=1 Name=AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center) Path= Host=ericir.syr.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name=KIDSPHERE-List Path=1/Listservs/KIDSPHERE-List Host=ericir.syr.edu Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Selected American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings (1991) Path=ftp:seq1.loc.gov@/pub/Library.of.Congress/research.guides/am er.folklife.ctr/Selected.recordings.91 Host=rs5.loc.gov Port=70 # Type=0 Name= Children's Books with Blind or Visually Impaired Characters Path=R435488-436735-/Listservs/LM_NET/6-March_93 Host=ericir.syr.edu Port=70 # Type=0 Name= Picture Books for Middle Schoolers Path=R683708-687413-/Listservs/LM_NET/8-May_93 Host=ericir.syr.edu Port=70 # Type=7 Name=Search All Literature Reviews Path=7/Literature Host=tinman.mes.umn.edu Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Introduction to KIDLINK for Educators Path=0/classrooms/kidlink-edu-info Host=kids.duq.edu Port=70 # Type=1 Name= K-12 Networking Path=1F:/SUBJECT/EDUC/K12 Host=gopher.dana.edu Port=70 # Type=0 Name=Children's Literature: A Library Timesaver Path=0/library/humanities/children.bib Host=cwis.sfu.ca Port=70 ********** So the variety of Gopher bookmarks is limited only by the individual's selection of information needed to be retrieved from this network of networks called the Internet. Explore and create your own information research gatherer by creating a unique bookmark. Richard J. Smith smithr@clp2.clpgh.org The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Jim Gerland gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu State University of New York at Buffalo Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology Manager, Network User Support Services .