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       Thread[.post]: 6.9
       TACKER:  agk (Anna)
       SUBJECT: .. Client of choice?
       DATE:    31-May-26 17:56:15
       HOST:    sdf
       
       Bob Alberti,
       
       Usually the way I interact with the internet is through ssh access to 
       this sdf system, using the tools here.
       
       If I'm doing something locally, as much as possible I use DOS and stay 
       entirely local. As much as possible my computer's either a 100% offline 
       single-tasking PC or a 100% online dumb terminal to a multiuser unix 
       system.
       
       So, here's the sdf's UMN gopher client....
       
       $ which gopher
       /usr/pkg/bin/gopher
       $ man gopher | tail
       man: Formatting manual page...
       COPYRIGHT
              The Internet Gopher(tm) software and documentation is copyright (c)
              1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by the University of Minnesota.  Gopher has
              limitations on its use and comes without a warranty.  Please refer
              to the file 'Copyright' included in the distribution.
                                                                        GOPHER(1)
       
       
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       /usr/pkg/bin/gopher
       $ man gopher | tail
       man: Formatting manual page...
       COPYRIGHT
              The Internet Gopher(tm) software and documentation is copyright (c)
              1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by the University of Minnesota.  Gopher has
              limitations on its use and comes without a warranty.  Please refer
              to the file 'Copyright' included in the distribution.
                                                                        GOPHER(1)
       
       More (maybe) useful info hidden in the compiled binary:
       
       $ tail /usr/pkg/bin/gopher
       |GCC: (NetBSD nb4 20200810) 7.5.0GCC: (nb4 20200810) 7.5.0$NetBSD: crt0.S,v 
       1.4 2018/11/26 17:37:46 joerg Exp $$NetBSD: crt0-common.c,v 1.23 2018/12/28 
       20:12:35 christos Exp $$NetBSD: crti.S,v 1.1 2010/08/07 18:01:35 joerg Exp 
       $$NetBSD: crtbegin.S,v 1.2 2010/11/30 18:37:59 joerg Exp $$NetBSD: 
       crtend.S,v 1.1 2010/08/07 18:01:34 joerg Exp $$NetBSD: crtn.S,v 1.1 
       2010/08/07 18:01:35 joerg
       
       This is as close as I can get you to the source code with my limited 
       knowledge. I think like a user, not a sysadmin/sysop.
       
       Glad you're around this generation of the thing you made back in '91, by 
       the way. I'm glad it exists.
       
       A
       
       
       
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