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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 10:12:07 -0600
From: BITNET list server at UA1VM (1.8a) <LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
Subject: File: "MAP20 LESSON"
MAP20: BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS
"He that travels much knows much." -- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
Once you find a neat Gopher site or menu, how are you ever going to
remember how to get back to it?
Easy! Leave a bookmark.
Bookmarks are "flags" that allow you to mark a neat Gopher menu or file
so that you can return to that menu or file whenever you want. All of
your bookmarks are kept in a "booklist" that acts just like a personal
gopher menu!
Each Gopher client has its own particular Bookmark commands, but they
all work on the same basic principle: you leave a bookmark at a site
that interests you, and you can access that bookmark though a booklist
that acts just like a regular gopher menu.
BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS IN THE UNIX GOPHER CLIENT
If you are using a UNIX Gopher client, there are four basic UNIX bookmark
commands that you need to remember:
a Adds the item that the --> is pointing at to your
booklist.
A Adds the current directory that you are in to your
booklist.
v Views your booklist
d Deletes a bookmark from your booklist
On Monday, I showed you the fictional "GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM" root
Gopher server. Let's go back to that Gopher server and look at
how we can start using bookmarks to make our lives a little easier:
Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com
1. Information about the Squirrel Gopher Server.
2. What's new in the Squirrel Gopher.
3. Network Resources, Services and Information/
4. Squirrel Staff Directory <CSO>
5. Squirrel Human Resources Information/
6. Potpourri, Miscellaneous Topics/
7. Local Squirrel Archives/
--> 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
If I type an upper case "A", I will add this entire menu to my
booklist (under the entry "Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com").
If I type a lower case "a", I will add whatever the --> is pointing
at to my booklist.
I'm going to do both.
I type an upper case "A", and the following appears on my screen:
Name for this bookmark? Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com
I can cancel this, rename this bookmark, or accept this name. I'm going
to accept the name. Once I do this, the bookmark is added to my
booklist.
I also want to add the "Other Gopher and Information Servers around the
World" menu to my booklist, so I move the --> cursor down to that line
and type a lower case "a". I go through the "name" prompt again, and the
entry is then added to my Booklist.
Okay ... I've just added two bookmarks to my booklist. What does
*THAT* mean? Well, if I type the letter "v", the following menu
appears on my screen:
Bookmarks
1. Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com/
--> 2. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
COOL! I've just created my own Gopher menu! Best of all, *I* get to
decide what information and sites are going to be on this Gopher menu!
Since these two bookmarks look a little lonely, I think I should add
SURAnet my booklist too. My booklist acts just like any other Gopher
menu, so I move the cursor down to the "Other Gopher and Information
Servers around the world" line, press return, and the following menu
appears on my screen:
Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World
1. All the Gopher Servers in the World/
2. Search All the Gopher Servers in the World <?>
3. Search titles in Gopherspace using veronica/
4. Africa/
5. Asia/
6. Europe/
7. International Organizations/
8. Middle East/
--> 9. North America/
10. Pacific/
11. Russia/
12. South America/
... snip snip snip (these are my Internet scissors) ...
We've seen this before!
I move the cursor down to "North America", press return, and the
following menu appears on my screen:
North America
1. Canada/
2. Costa Rica/
3. Mexico/
--> 4. USA/
Since I know that SURAnet is in the U.S., I move the cursor down to
"USA", press return, and the following appears on my screen:
USA
--> 1. All/
2. General/
3. Alabama/
4. Alaska/
5. Arizona
... snip snip snip ...
51. West Virginia/
52. Wisconsin/
53. Wyoming/
I select the "All" menu, and after a little while the following menu
appears on my screen:
All
1. 1994 California Voter information/
2. AACRAO National Office, Washington, DC/
3. AATF - American Association of Teachers of French/
4. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/
... snip snip snip ...
988. SUNY Office of Library Services
--> 989. SURAnet NIC/
990. Safety Information Resources on the InterNet/
991. Sailor - Maryland's Information Network/
... snip snip snip ...
Now I have a choice. I can either move the cursor down to "SURAnet NIC"
and type a lower case "a" to add SURAnet to my booklist, or I can
enter the SURAnet Gopher and type an upper case "A". Either way
will give me the same result.
I'm lazy. I type a lower case "a".
Let's see what my booklist looks like now. I type the letter "v"
and the following menu appears on my screen:
Bookmarks
1. Root gopher server: gopher.squirrel.com/
2. Other Gopher and Information Servers around the World/
--> 3. SURAnet NIC/
Now, if I ever need to get to SURAnet, all I will have to do is access
my booklist!
BOOKMARKS AND BOOKLISTS IN THE RICE CMS GOPHER
Despite what UNIX fans may tell you, not everyone in the world has a
UNIX account. Many new Internet users -- especially new users at some
U.S. colleges and universities -- have accounts on IBM VM mainframes
(as a matter of fact, *MY* main account is on a VM mainframe).
The VM Gopher menu is set-up a little differently from the UNIX
Gopher menu:
Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.0 GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM
1/8
(root menu)
<document> Information about the Squirrel Gopher Server
<document> What's new in the Squirrel Gopher
<menu> Network Resources, Services and Information
<phonebk> Squirrel staff directory
<menu> Squirrel Human Resources Information
<menu> Potpourri, Miscellaneous Topics
<menu> Local Squirrel Archives
<menu>_ Other Gopher Servers
1= Help 2= 3= Return 4= Print 5= Receive 6= Find
7= Backward 8= Forward 9= Bookmark 10= Booklist 11= 12= Quit
The VM Gopher has a whole bunch of nifty features. It prints the address
of the Gopher site that you are connected to in the upper-right-hand
corner of the screen (UNIX users have to type "=" to get this information).
It also tells you if a menu item is a file or menu without using any
weird "/" or "." symbols.
One of the drawbacks to the VM Gopher is that there is no bookmark command
equivalent to UNIX's lower case "a" command. The VM Gopher's bookmark
command acts just like UNIX's upper case "A" command, which means that
you have to actually enter a site or menu item if you want to add that
site or menu item to your booklist.
Here is what I mean:
Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.0 GOPHER.SQUIRREL.COM
1/8
(root menu)
<document> I