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> Thanks for the explanation, but there's something I still don't > understand and that seems to be a bug in Gopher client to me: when I > press control-c during an attempt to contact these servers, I can't > take back the control of the program, the beep (from the buzzer) > becomes weird and repetitive and I have to close the terminal window. > I tried the same links with SeaMonkey, simply pressing escape stops > the transaction.

This is a known bug in the UMN gopher client; it does it to me as well. I don't know if John has fixed this in his distribution.

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