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0001 <?xml version="1.0" ?> 0002 <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.5-Based Variant V1.1//EN" 0003 "dtd/kdedbx45.dtd" [ 0004 <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> 0005 <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> 0006 ]> 0007 <article lang="&language;" id="gopher"> 0008 <title>gopher</title> 0009 <articleinfo> 0010 <authorgroup> 0011 <author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> 0012 <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> 0013 </authorgroup> 0014 </articleinfo> 0015 0016 <para> 0017 <command>gopher</command> began as a distributed campus information service 0018 at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information 0019 on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para> 0020 0021 <para> 0022 Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven 0023 interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another 0024 menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you 0025 originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host). 0026 Gopher can <quote>tunnel</quote> from one Gopher to another without the 0027 user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps 0028 the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the 0029 <quote>illusion</quote> of a single, large set of interconnected menus. 0030 </para> 0031 0032 <para> 0033 Gopher permits the user to record an item's location in a 0034 <quote>bookmark</quote> thereby allowing users to follow a 0035 <quote>bookmark</quote> directly to a particular item without 0036 searching the menu system. Gopher menus are not standardized, inasmuch as 0037 each Gopher server is individually determined. 0038 </para> 0039 0040 <para> 0041 Source: 0042 <ulink 0043 url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm"> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm</ulink> 0044 </para> 0045 </article>