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| author | Darrell Anderson <[email protected]> | 2014-02-06 17:50:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Darrell Anderson <[email protected]> | 2014-02-06 17:50:29 -0600 |
| commit | cf14b1bd7803760ea4657269aeb424869e0058c6 (patch) | |
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Reorganize tdeioslave help handbooks, fix related protocol files and issues, update and add handbooks.
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diff --git a/doc/tdeioslave/gopher/index.docbook b/doc/tdeioslave/gopher/index.docbook new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ba131cdea --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tdeioslave/gopher/index.docbook @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> + <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> +]> + +<article lang="&language;" id="gopher"> +<title>gopher</title> +<articleinfo> +<authorgroup> +<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author> +<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> +</authorgroup> +</articleinfo> + +<para> +<command>gopher</command> began as a distributed campus information service +at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information +on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para> + +<para> +Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven +interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another +menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you +originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host). +Gopher can <quote>tunnel</quote> from one Gopher to another without the +user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps +the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the +<quote>illusion</quote> of a single, large set of interconnected menus. +</para> + +<para> +Gopher permits the user to record an item's location in a +<quote>bookmark</quote> thereby allowing users to follow a +<quote>bookmark</quote> directly to a particular item without +searching the menu system. Gopher menus are not standardized, inasmuch as +each Gopher server is individually determined. +</para> + +<para> +Source: +<ulink +url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm"> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm</ulink> +</para> +</article> |