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About Version 1.61 of the OS/2 Gopher Client

This version matches the one made available on the "Developer's Connection" Volume 3 CD-ROM.

There are many changes to the client from version 1.04; some of the most significant are:

* True multithreading in all TCP/IP processing

* The default representation of a Gopher menu now uses icons; you can have multiple windows on screen at once.

* Mouse Button 2 brings up a popup menu pertaining to the current item or the current menu.

* Printing (though it's NOT multithreaded and is only to LPT1) from the viewer window

* You can specify a viewer program for any Gopher type (see the Options notebook)

* Speed improvements

* Rexx support to supply the name of a file to be saved or downloaded

* Lots of fit and finish improvements

There's a complete change log in the GOPHER.CHA file inside the ZIPfile.

What's not in this version?

* Gopher+ support

* SOCKS support

* Better documentation

* Proper integration of the online help back to the code

* Proper printing

* More fit and finish

* Proper PH (phonebook) support

Stay tuned...

David Singer (singer@almaden.ibm.com)