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The Internet Gopher is a distributed document delivery service. It
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allows a neophyte user to access various types of data residing on
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multiple hosts in a seamless fashion. This is accomplished by
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presenting the user a hierarchical arrangement of documents and by
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using a client-server communications model. The Internet Gopher
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Server accepts simple queries, and responds by sending the client a
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document.
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This is the Gopher+ distribution based on the University of
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Minnesota's Internet Gopher+ distribution for UNIX machines.
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University of Minnesota actively developed this software until 1995.
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In 2000, they released it to the public under the GNU General Public
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License. This represents the latest version of their tree, as adopted
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by a group of programmers. A client for VMS is included but is not
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currently supported.
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