README
1$Id: README,v 1.5 2002/02/12 21:30:03 jgoerzen Exp $
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3This is the Gopher+ distribution based on the University of
4Minnesota's Internet Gopher+ distribution for UNIX machines.
5University of Minnesota actively developed this software until 1995.
6In 2000, they released it to the public under the GNU General Public
7License. This represents the latest version of their tree, as adopted
8by a group of programmers. A client for VMS is included but is not
9currently supported. Here's a breakdown by directory:
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11announcements: Release notes, public announcements about Gopher, etc.
12 Preserved here for posterity.
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14coders: Files of note to Gopher developers.
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16debian: Files to build gopher on Debian. Also,
17 debian/changelog is the place to look for all recent
18 changes.
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20doc: The documentation for all parts of the distribution.
21 Look here *first*. Important files:
22 INSTALL -- Installation instructions
23 *.changes -- Stuff that's changed from version to version
24 man pages, etc.
25 PLATFORMS -- Info on support of different platforms
26 LOOK HERE IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS COMPILING!
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28gopher: The Internet Gopher+ Curses client.
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30gophfilt: A Gopher "filter" program.
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32test: A regression testing package, include sample data.
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34Please look in the directory "doc" for more information about installing
35the various portions of the Internet Gopher. Specifically refer to
36the file INSTALL.
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38This software is Copyright 1991-2000 by the Regents of the University
39of Minnesota. This software is Copyright (C) 2000-2002 by John
40Goerzen and the gopher developers. Please refer to the file
41"Copyright" for more information on restrictions of use. Bug reports,
42patches and comments may be sent to gopher@complete.org.
43
44The UMN team wishes recognize the help and code from the following people:
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46 UNIX network Programming W. Richard Stevens
47 (For socket functions and error
48 routines, now unrecognizeable :-) )
49
50 elm Copyrighted by the USENET trust.
51 (For UI cloning)
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53 WAIS Brewster and co. at Thinking Machines
54 (er, now WAIS Inc.)
55 (For our UNIX generic indexing stuff)
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57and all of our users for their great suggestions and patches!
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59See the files doc/*.changes for a long list of people who have
60submitted patches and code.
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