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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Computer and Information Services Newsletter Information Services Volume 2, Number 11 May 1993 This May Be Your Last Newsletter! v Features This May Be Your Last Newsletter ...................... 261 To keep our costs down and responsibly use University Internet Gopher™ Conference ............................ 262 resources, we completely purge our newsletter mailing list What is Gopher? ......................................... 263 EDUCOM Publications ........................................ 264 once a year. We're preparing for a purge now. Institute for Online Scholarship .......................... 265 Multimedia Lab for Macs .................................... 266 Free E-mail Accounts for Student Organizations ... 266 To Cancel, Do Nothing Software Services Information Management Using INGRES ....... 267 If you no longer want to receive this newsletter, do Central System News: nothing. We will delete the entry on the mailing label SAS v6.07 on EP /IX .................................... 268 from our mailing list, and this will be the last newsletter SPSS Graphics on VMS ............................... 272 you receive from us. SPSS 4.1 Available on VMS ......................... 275 What vi Mode Are You Using? ...................... 276 DISSPLA, PICSURE, Dl-3000 to be removed .. 277 To Continue, Act Before June 10 Macs, the Kodak Printer, and Merged Files ......... 277 Site License Corner If you want to keep your name on our mailing list, return Mathematica and EduTech .......................... 279 your current mailing label to us before June 10. How the Program Works .............................. 279 Bargains: If needed, update the name and address shown on your • Free Mac System Updates: 32-bit System Enabler and Mac Update 1.0 for System 7.1 ............ 283 mailing label. You can use the coupon on page 288 to tell • "Calling" Bulletin Boards with Tel net ............... 284 us whether you want your subscription continued as is or Three Good Books on Using the Internet ............. 285 want it changed. v Book Center News Did I mail in my New Products: PSI Modems, Apple Workgroup Server, renewal? ZEOS LiteLine, Apple Ergonomic Keyboard, MS-DOS 6.0- beginning on ....................... 280 Price and Product Change Samples .................... 282 And Books, Too ................................................. 283 Printed on recycled paper; mailed with Addressing and Mailing's Cheshire recyclable labels. • continued on next page Page 262 May 1993 Computer and ... Short Course Bulletin Internet Gopher™ We're changing how we handle our Short Course Bulletin mailing Jist. Currently we automatically mail the bulletin Conference to everyone on our Computer and Information Services Newsletter mailing list who has a Minnesota address. We also send it to non-Minnesota addresses if the subscriber For two days this chilly April, they came identified themselves as a University of Minnesota student, from near and far seeking the gospel staff, or faculty member. according to Gopher. In June we will begin sending the Short Course Bulletin Since we introduced Gopher just two years only to those who ask for it - whether they receive the ago, its use has spread throughout the newsletter or not. We've provided a check box on the world. There are now over 1250 Gopher subscription request coupon for those who want to receive servers throughout the world, and an ever the bulletin. If you want to continue to receive the increasing amount of Gopher traffic on the Internet. For newsletter and the bulletin, check these boxes those who like numbers: Gopher ranks ninth by bytes and tenth by packets on the NSFnet, the main Internet back Both Publications 0 bone in the United States. Continue 0 Internet Gopher™ World Tour Get it on Gopher On April 12 and 13, Computer and Information Services Many people get short course information from Gopher. hosted the second annual Internet Gopher Conference and Some have even set a Gopher Bookmark so they can zoom welcomed over 250 participants to the University of to that section. You will find information about current Minnesota campus. Designated the "Internet Gopher course offerings by following this Gopher path World Tour," the conference was an international affair with representatives from Belgium, Canada, Chile, Sweden, • Computer Information and the United Kingdom as well as participants from the • Computer & Information Services Short Courses United States. The diversity of the participants was professional as well as Campus Mail Addresses geographical. Although most participants came from Generally campus mail is delivered within 24 hours. universities, representatives from private companies, Incomplete or inaccurate addresses delay deliveries or mean research facilities, and governmental agencies also at you may not receive the item at all or may receive it tended. This Jist includes such companies and institutions inconsistently. as IBM, Apple, Xerox, Pacific Bell, the Mayo Clinic, the National Institutes ofHealth, the Minnesota Legislature, Please help. and NASA. If you want to continue receiving this newsletter, check The conference's objective was to provide Gopher users your campus mail address to be sure it is accurate. Good with an update on present and planned Gopher software addresses include department name and department room and technologies, as well as related issues, such as main number. Bad addresses do not include a department taining servers and categorizing and indexing information. name; they also include your personal room number rather The first day consisted of a small, "by invitation only" than a department room number. Although incorrectly technical workshop that helped define the issues for the addressed mail may reach you, delivering it is costly. following day's agenda, when the majority of attendees arrived. ... Information Services May 1993 Page 263 Gopher+ text file. However other forms such as Rich Text Format, The morning's agenda focused on general Gopher infor Microsoft Word, PostScript, or TeX might also be avail mation while the afternoon offered more in-depth sessions able, giving the user with appropriate viewing applications on specific subjects. The Minnesota Gopher Team pre the ability to get these "alternate views" of the document. sented an update on Gopher+, a set of extensions to the base Internet Gopher protocol that were outlined last Fall. Attributes also enable a server to ask questions of the user, These extensions are backward compatible with the basic to display electronic forms, send results back to the server, Gopher protocol (so old clients will continue to work with and to do simple authentication if necessary. new servers) but provide the framework for extended functionality. Among the features available will be the Beta implementations of Gopher+ for UNIX and Macin ability to associate optional "attributes" with Gopher tosh were released shortly before the conference, and the items. These attributes could be things like the size or capabilities of this software were reviewed in the general modification date of an item. Attributes could also hold morning sessions. abstracts, keywords, authors, administrators, charging information, etc. associated with items. In the afternoon, participants could choose from three concurrent tracks, ranging from the highly technical to the Special attributes called VIEWs will allow you to retrieve popular Cooking your Gopher, a "how to" session for items in various representations. For example, a document beginning Gopher handlers. might have a basic representation as a plain, unformatted What is Gopher? Gopher n. Local and Global - you check the Table of Contents or l. Any of various short The information stored on Gopher Index. Most local Gopher servers tailed, burrowing servers can be made visible to the include an "entry" called Other Gopher mammals of the family Internet. Large collections can be and Information Servers. Under this Geomyidae, ofNorth stored on many machines yet appear entry you would find selections such America. 2. (Amer. as one unit, such as the Computer as North America and Pacific. These colloq.) Native or Information section of the University selections lead to others and so on. inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher of Minnesota's Gopher. Internet Many client versions of Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who Gopher client/server software is an software let you set Bookmarks, runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches increasingly popular way to set up making it easy to return to selections or delivers documents for office staff. local information systems that are you want to look at again. 4. (computer tech.) Software follow distributed over many computers. ing a simple protocol for tunneling through a TCP/IP Internet. While providing a delivery vehicle for Available Clients local information, Gopher also makes You can get Gopher clients for these it easy to access other Gopher and systems: DOS (with Crynwr, former Client/Server Software information servers throughout the Clarkson, Driver), Macintosh, Gopher is a tool for our information world. For example, anyone, any NeXTstep, UNIX Curses & Emacs, age. Computer Gophers come in two where with Gopher client software Xwindows (athena, Motif, Xview), flavors: (and, of course, an Internet connec VM/CMS, VMS, OS/2 2.0, and l. servers that store information and tion) can access information stored on MVS/XA. Other clients and servers 2. clients that are used to access the any "public" gopher server, such