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1 total messages Started by Bob Jackiewicz Thu, 22 Jul 1993 14:25

Author: Bob Jackiewicz
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 14:25

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Ok, so I finally decided to make this stuff available to everyone. If
you anon FTP to bobj.cc.uic.edu, there are four files you need to get:

gopherd.rex     gopherd rexx
gophernn.fl     gophernn filelist
splitat.rex     splitat rexx
orlocate.rex    orlocate rexx

Gopherd rexx is the search engine. It has stuff in there to restrict
IP address, or you can delete that and use the built-in Gopher
IP checking. Either way, it should work. THis was done just to be
done a few months ago. Thus, it's ugly code, but I think I commented
well enough so that you could follow it.

Please note: This software is still running on the VM Gopher server
version 2.3! It shouldn't be too hard to make it work with 2.4, but
I'm no help here.

How it works: It's not as integrated as some Unix versions I've seen.
You're presented with a menu of all the hierarchies, like bit, alt,
etc... When you select the one you want, the server creates, on the
fly, the list of all groups within that hierarchy. Once you select a
group, if the selector string starts with a number, the group number,
the GROUP file is read and the articles are displayed, similar to
the ARTMENU in PSU NetNews. You then select an article, or document.
If the file exists, it is sent back. If it doesn't, it assumes that
it's an article, and extracts it from the proper VLIB. Hey, it works.
One thing which you may notice in the code is that it only displays
the newest 100 articles. This is because of the PCs around our campus,
which just don't have enough memory to store a lot of articles, or
even all the groups in a hierarchy, like the very large comp  .

If you run into any problems, let me know. I can't guarantee that I'll
fix it, but I'll try to explain it. Also, please let me know if it
works!

  Bob Jackiewicz                   PIPE < U09046 NOTE A | disclaim | MAILER
  BITNET: U09046@UICVM                       InterNet: U09046@uicvm.uic.edu
  University of Illinois at Chicago Computer Center - NetNews Administrator
  Ever heard of OS/2?  No? So thats why you're using Windows!

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