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Hi, Jim Dutton.
In <16582@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> you said
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> Can the Amiga Gopher program be used with AmigaNOS V2.9n ? If not, what is
> special about AmigaNOSGW ?? I downloaded amiganosgw5.lzh twice, but the file
> appears to be corrupted ???
No, it needs AmigaNOSGW. That version has a (partial) BSD socket interface
available via an Amiga message port, and hence can support totally external
clients, which is what my gopher is. AmigaNOSGW is available from
newgate.demon.co.uk:/pub/amiga. The version there has been sucessfully
ftp'd by several people.
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> In using AmigaNOS V2.9n, I have removed my SLIP directory and run exclusively
> with the TCPIP directory. What does Amiga Gopher need that it looks for a
> SLIP directory and then abends when it can't find one ? It also abends when
> I "redirect" SLIP: to TCPIP: ??
It wants a directory called slip:spool/gopher, which should contain the
Bookmarks and Startup files from the distribution.
> Where is there documentation on Amiga Gopher ? What are the setup requirements ??
I'm afraid the (small amount of) documentation got separated from
the distribution file - basically, I uploaded it late at night :-/
The fundamentals are:
Create directories called slip:Clients and slip:spool/gopher
Unpack Gopher into slip:clients
Unpack Startup and Bookmarks into slip:spool/gopher
Start gopher from the cli, or by issuing the command CLIENT GOPHER
from Amiganos.
The bookmarks file gives you a set of starting points. It can be
amended using an editor.
Hope that gives you enough to get started.
BTW I expect to produce a new version reasonably soon - the current one
is essentially a prototype, but it seems to have spread...
Cheers Graham
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