This column covers features and resources available through the University's Gopher Campus Wide Information System (CWIS). Gopher is available on various UNT host computers including the VAX, Sol, and Jove. It is also available in the General Access Labs and on various Novell file servers around campus.
This month, I have decided to finally get back to one of the primary focuses of this column: highlighting new Gopher servers that I have seen in the great vastness of Gopherspace. I foresee that this will probably remain the primary focus of my column for now, with additional highlights of new UNT Gopher/USENET NEWS information as it is appropriate.
Most of the information about these services comes straight from the source the Gopher administrators. In fact, you can track the progress of Gopher yourself by reading the USENET NEWS group comp.infosystems.gopher.
In the interest of making access to Gopher systems easier, I have set up an area of our Gopher tree that contains pointers to all of the Gophers mentioned in this column. However, I will change these pointers as I write a new column . . . so, you need to plan on placing bookmarks to these services if you find them useful; this way you can return to the servers anytime you like, even if our Gopher server is not up. See your individual Gopher client documentation for more information about bookmarks.
The new area of Gopher is located at:
Each Gopher featured here is accompanied by the text describing it as posted by the original author
.Bruce Welker ISD System Administration NGDC/NOAA Mailstop E/GC4 325 Broadway Boulder,Co 80303 email: bdw@terra.ngdc.noaa.gov audio: 303-497-7079 fax: 303-497-6513 Discl: Whatever I say is a personal opinion, unsupported by any authority or fact.
SchoolNet Gopher - SchoolNet is a joint Federal/Provincial initiative of the Canadian Government. Our gopher has been designed specifically for the needs of students and educators (K-12).
Please check it out and put it up. Our gopher address is
If you have any comments or suggestions please drop me a line schoolnet-admin@ccs.carleton.ca
Thanks!
Chris Lalonde
FreeNet Science and Engineering Consulting Group
National Health Security Plan - President Clinton's National Health Security Plan is available on line now. The Gopher site I chose has the full text of the plan, searchable indexes to it, and commentary. It appears as National Health Security Plan.
Mark Thacker
CWIS Coordinator
Council for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education - We are pleased to announce a new Gopher server
Name=Council for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education
Host=130.235.92.156
Port=70
Path=
Type=1
This Gopher has been experimental since spring 1993. Now we've received a grant from the Swedish Council for the Renewal of Undergraduate Education and the service will be permanent. The Gopher will contain information on the members and projects of the Council.
The main activities of the Council are:
As many of the projects involve computers the Council has started a Network for Computer based Learning. The network is responsible for the new gopher.
The largest part of the gopher will be dedicated to a database with programs for CBL.
Here we will have educational programs, reviews of programs and links to other sources and articles on CBL. We have started with the subjects Medicine and Physics.
!!! This announcement is also a call for material on CBL.!!!
Much of our text material has been in Swedish so far but we aim and have already started to transform into English.
The administrators of the server are
Bengt Kjollerstrom Dept. of Theoretical Physics Solvegatan 14A 223 62 Lund voice: +46-46-109081 facsimile: +46-46-104438 email: bengtk@thep.lu.se and ... Hans Svensson email: hans@thep.lu.se
Space Shuttle/Hubble Press Release Photographs - I have loaded the press release photos from STS-58, STS-51L, and STS-1 on an anonymous ftp and Gopher server (krakatoa.jsc.nasa.gov) at the Johnson Space Center. I have also included the Hubble telescope deployment photos. Look under /graphics/PressReleases.
Future missions will be posted as soon as the press release sets have been selected, usually about a week after landing.
If there is sufficient interest I will also load images from each mission from Mercury to the present.
We are discussing the possibility of making all NASA manned mission photos available online. Please let me know if you would use this service and what you would do with the images if you had them. I would also like feedback about the quality of our JPEG compressed files.
Enjoy!
Kevin Marsh kmarsh@deneb.jsc. nasa.gov
Disclaimer: This posting does not reflect official policy or official opinions of any kind.
United States Government Gophers - I am posting the following article for Calvin Boyer; please send any comments to him. By the way, anyone who has not seen the rest of Cal's gopher offering is really missing something.
David Walker Assistant Director, ECS Office of Academic Computing University of California, Irvine
US Government gophers
There are presently 83 selections under our United States Government Gophers/ No doubt some publicly accessible US government and quasi governmental gophers have been overlooked or are new on the scene.
Name=United States GOVERNMENT Gophers
Type=1
Port=7000
Path=1/gopher.welcome/peg/GOPHERS/gov
We would welcome link information to update our list. Thanks for interest and assistance. Please send data to
cjboyer@uci.edu Calvin Boyer University of California, Irvine Office of Academic Computing INTERNET: cjboyer@uci.edu