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This application lets your Mac function as a Gopher server.

To run this software you will need the have MacTCP installed on your Macintosh. You will have to configure MacTCP so that your Mac has a static IP address; you will also need to register a name for your Macintosh with your local domain name system. Once you launch the Gopher program your Macintosh is an internet Gopher server. While running as a server, your Mac will make everything in the folder the Gopher was run from available to Gopher clients. Note that you can either run the Gopher server in the foreground under Finder (before System 7) or in the background (MultiFinder or System 7).

The Gopher's Helper is a hypercard 2.0 stack that can be used to easily attach long names to files and directories and establish links to entities that either are on other gopher servers or are pointers (links) to index servers, CSO nameservers, and the like. See the internet Gopher Protocol document for more information about valid types of internet gopher entities.

If you have questions, bugs to report, or comments you can e-mail them to the internet Gopher team at:

gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu

You can subscribe gopher-news, an electronic mailing list we keep to inform interested folks of new versions of Gopher software. Send your subscription request to:

gopher-news-request@boombox.micro.umn.edu

Version 1.0.1. More System 7 patches. Default port now 70. Version 1.0.2. Get by date for index server. Version 1.3b2 Removed get by date because it was removed from protocol.