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- GopherApp is an Internet information service program for
- Macintosh computers. It provides a Finder-like link to the range
- of Internet Gopher services.
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- GopherApp is being written by Don Gilbert, using the MacApp
- extensible Macintosh programming framework from Apple Computer.
- It is actually a subset of a biosequence analysis program
- called SeqApp.
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- To use GopherApp, your Mac must have a network connection to the
- Internet, and it must have MacTCP installed and operating (as
- with NCSA Telnet, Eudora, network news and similar MacTCP-based
- Internet programs). You can also use GopherApp over telephone lines
- when MacTCP has a SLIP interface and you dial-up to a Serial Line IP
- server.
-
- You may obtain GopherApp thru anonymous ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, in
- folder /util/gopher, as gopherapp.hqx. You may also obtain updates
- using Gopher to this same IUBio archive (host=ftp.bio.indiana.edu,
- port=70). Look for a folder called "IUBio Software+Data/GopherApp".
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- GopherApp.Help is a plain text file which may be read from your favorite
- wordprocessor. If you have problems getting GopherApp to launch,
- please read GopherApp.Help. GopherApp should work on all Mac models from
- Mac+, with System 7 and System 6 software.
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- Programmers with MPW Pascal and C and MacApp 2.x libraries may
- obtain source for GopherApp as "gopherapp-src.hqx" next to the
- GopherApp application above.
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- Comments, bug reports and suggestions for new features
- may be addressed via e-mail to
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- Software@Bio.Indiana.Edu
-
- -- Don Gilbert
-
- History
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- 7 Jul 92, v 1.3b52 Various bug fixes to GopherApp, including
- long paths (>255 char) so now all wais searches should work,
- mapping to mac types extended to Gopher types, so e.g.,
- new gopher types can be incorporated thru user-editable map ('T'->'8' or 'g'->'9'),
- or change default behavior (have '0' text always displayed by favorite text editor),
- binhex transfer is revised, now is a lot FASTER,
- fixed "Save" bug when file opened from finder,
- pref: small icon views enabled,
- pref: disabled edit/new link unless smart user flips switch,
- pref: dropped "same window",
- pref: require user locate diggings folder before attempting to use it,
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- 25 Mar 92, v1.0a41 (or later). First release to general public.
- Also released SeqApp for biologists.
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