Date:         Mon, 25 Oct 1993 08:10:19 EDT
Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
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From: Jim Gerland - Network User Support <GERLAND@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
Subject:      #7 A CMS Gopher Client - Help file
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NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'

Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland

GOPHER HELP

At my System prompt I type the word "gopher gopher.uiuc.edu" and retrieve the
following menu:

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Rice CMS Gopher 2.4.2                                           gopher.uiuc.edu
1/22        More

<menu>     Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
<menu>     Campus Announcements (last updated 8/18/93)
<menu>     What's New?(last update: 8/17/93)
<menu>     Information about Gopher
<search>   Keyword Search of Gopher Menus
<menu>     Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Information
<menu>     Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information
<menu>     Computer Documentation, Software, and Information
<menu>     Libraries and Reference Information
<menu>     Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather
<menu>     Other Gopher and Information Servers
<menu>     Phone Books (ph)
<menu>     Internet File Server (ftp) Sites
<menu>     SPECIAL: FLOOD RELIEF INFORMATION (ILLINOIS CES)
<document> IMPORTANT!NEW TERMINAL SERVER CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT AUGUST

1= Help       2= Open      3= Return    4= Print      5= Save/Rcv 6= Find
7= Backward   8= Forward   9= Bookmark 10= Booklist  11=         12= Quit
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The bottom of the Gopher menu has options from which you can choose.  Help
can be selected by pressing the PF1 key from most points in Gopher. Here is the
help screen:

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 CMS Gopher - Viewing Directories

 You are presented with a menu of items.  These may be files, directories
 of files, links to other Gopher servers, or other special functions.
 To "open" an item, place your cursor on or under the item then press <ENTER>.

 Before each item is symbolic text explaining what type of item it is:

         <document>  (nothing), this item is a plain-text file
         <menu>      this item leads to another directory or Gopher
         <phonebk>   this item leads to a CSO/qi Phonebook search
         <search>    this item leads to a keyword search
         <telnet>    this item represents a telnet session
         <picture>   this item is a graphic
                     (requires a grphics terminal to view)
         <binary>    this item is a "binary" file
                     (not interesting to view,  but downloadable)

 Function keys active are:

         ENTER       select an item
         PF1         help (gives you this screen)
         PF2         select an item (same as ENTER)
         PF3         go back to previous menu (if any)
         PF6         find particular string within the menu
         PF7         Scroll UP in the menu
         PF8         Scroll DOWN in the menu
         PF9         set a BOOKMARK on this panel
                     (or delete the BOOKMARK at the cursor
                     if you're viewing your bookmark list)
         PF10        go to the BOOKMARK list/select panel
         PF12        quit completely

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This quick Gopher on-line help comes in handy when you forget how to move
around "Gopherspace".  There are a few other things to note in help.
Information on how to create a bookmark is useful and we'll be creating
bookmarks later in this course.  Also, information on how to quit and how to
search for an item is given.

This help screen goes beyond a computer one screen of information. When
that happens you can use the PF8 key to get the next screen of information.
When you get to the end of the document you must press the PF3 key to quit
the HELP utility and return to Gopher.


Richard J. Smith
smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Jim Gerland
gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
State University of New York at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology

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