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Archive-name: auto/comp.infosystems.gopher/Sextant-1-0b21-available

Sextant 1.0b21

Sextant is a Gopher client for Macintosh. This is the second public, beta
release. Please send comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the author.

CHANGES

Sextant now supports telnet item under System 7. Currently NCSA Telnet is
used to open the connection. (Support for tn3270 is missing at this time.)

Sextant nolonger ignores Gopher items it does not know how to use. Instead,
these items are displayed in gray and are inactive. The user now has the
opportunity to search for a tool to access these items.

Sextant doesn't bother you about not having selected a printer.

Sextant doesn't open the first item found in a search result. Most people
found this too confusing.

Sextant and UMN's Macintosh Gopher server coexist on the same Macintosh.
(Very limited testing.)

Removed TCP debugging code. This has increased Sextant's speed.

Sextant now ignores '\r' when reading text from the network. This was done
to allow Sextant to talk with Gopher servers that don't correctly implement
the network end-of-line termination. (Users received a -23008 error in the
past.)

Imporved Error messages.

SOURCE CODE

The source code to Sextant will be made available early next week. To
compile Sextant you will need THINK C and the THINK Class Library 1.1.2.

AVAILABILITY

Sextant is available via anonymous ftp at

ftp.brown.edu
/pub/gopher/Sextant1.0b21.sea.hqx

--
Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University

Andrew_Gilmartin@Brown.Edu
(401) 863-7305

-- 
Andrew Gilmartin                        
Computing & Information Services
Brown University

Andrew_Gilmartin@Brown.Edu
(401) 863-7305