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16th December 1993

Hi! This is the README from moog version 0.2. moog is an X Window gopher client for Unix boxes, written using Tk & Perl. This is an alpha-type release which I'm putting out for feedback as I won't have time to do much more before Xmas. If you use it, let me know of any problems you experience, and of any improvements you'd like to see.

My Internet E-Mail address is <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>

NB: Don't use this software if you want something stable and well supported, as it's a one man band job (me!)

Martin.

REQUIREMENTS:

To run this version of moog, you must have a fairly recent version of Tcl/Tk and Perl installed on your machine - I've run it with Perl 4.036 and the following O/S and Tk combinations:

SunOS 4.1.[123] Tk 3.6 Solaris 2.3 Tk 3.6 (SunOS 4.1 binary compatability package) HP-UX 9.00 Tk 3.2 IRIX 4.0.5 Tk 3.6 Ultrix 4.3 Tk 3.6

INSTALLATION:

First, obtain moog-0.2.tar.Z, now explode this wherever you want to install the package, e.g.

# cd /usr/local/lib # zcat /tmp/moog-0.2.tar.Z | tar xvf -

unpacks moog inside /usr/local/lib/moog-0.2.

Firstly you will need to edit "moog" and "plunder" to reflect the locations of wish and perl on your machine. Straight out of the box, the distribution expects to find these in /usr/local/bin.

Now you may need to customise some files.

First: "moog". There is a bank of variables at the top of this file which tell moog its overall configuration. This is what they mean:

auto_path - should include the directory you unpacked moog in markFile - name of file to use to store moog bookmarks fallbackMarkFile - full path name of gopher helper application defaults file, see below - "dot.gopherrc" is an example moogRC - full path name of system wide configuration file, see below - "dot.moog" is an example rootServer - name of root gopher server rootPort - port number root gopher server is listening on where - directory to put temporary files in

moog uses the same file structure for its bookmarks as the curses gopher client, so you can share bookmarks between the two if you like. The "fallbackMarkFile" is a template to use when creating a bookmarks file for the first time. You may want to change this to match the helper applications used by the curses client on your machine.

"moogRC" tells moog what applications to launch when you fetch an item of a particular type. If there is a .moog file in your home directory this will be used in preference to the system wide one specified by the "moogRC" variable. This file has an entry for each of the objects you want moog to be able to process, of the form...

8:Tel:d:e:Telnet session:xterm -title "%T - login as %P" -e telnet %h %p

What this says is "for objects of type _8_ (i.e. telnet), _d_on't bother to fetch them from the gopher server, and run the _e_xternal helper application xterm (with some other parameters - see below) when they are selected." It also says to mark directory entries of this type with the letters "Tel" in gopher directory listings, and gives the object the human readable title "Telnet session" (not presently used).

OK values for the third field (object download options) are

a: download as ASCII (strip out linefeed characters and trailing ".") b: download in binary d: don't download!

OK values for the fourth field (linkage) are

i: evaluate the piece of Tcl/Tk code specified in the last field e: execute the external program specified in the last field u: don't know what to do!

Finally, the following characters are interpolated when they appear in the "command" field:

%t - the object's type %h - host name of the remote server %p - it's port number %T - the object's title %P - the path to the object, once connected to the remote server %f - the name of the temporary file the object has been downloaded to (doesn't apply when the download option is "d")

RUNNING:

Place the directory where moog is installed in your path, e.g. (csh)

% set path = ( /usr/local/lib/moog-0.2) % rehash

or (sh/bash/...)

$ PATH=:/usr/local/lib/moog-0.2 $ export PATH

Now you can run it like this

% moog

You can also give moog a host name, or host name and port number (the default is 70) on the command line, e.g.

% moog genie

or

% moog genie 4320