From: SMTP%"VMSGopher-L@trln.lib.unc.edu" 17-NOV-1994 21:00:31.11 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Walker V2.0 available X-ListName: Gopher for VMS implementation and testing Warnings-To: <> Errors-To: owner-vmsgopher-l@trln.lib.unc.edu Sender: owner-vmsgopher-l@trln.lib.unc.edu Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:54:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Tanner Reply-To: VMSGopher-L@trln.lib.unc.edu Subject: Walker V2.0 available To: vmsgopher-l@trln.lib.unc.edu Message-ID: <01HJLE8G8390I3T5AB@Cerritos.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Walker version 2.0 is now available via gopher.cerritos.edu in Cerritos College/ Gopher Utilities/ walker.zip and via ftp.cerritos.edu in [.vmsnet]walker20.zip. Walker will now work with a robot configuration file if it find one on the target system. The readme file is included here. -Bruce This is version 2.0 of Walker, a program to traverse a single site's Gopher tree. It is invoked with: $ walker host.domain port output-file where host.domain is the fully qualified domain name of the target system, port is the Gopher port number (defaults to 70) and output-file is the name of the output file generated (defaults to walker.out). The 'host.domain' name must be the name that is emitted by a Gopher directory listing; if the host part of a Gopher directory selector does not match this name, Walker will assume that the directory is for a remote link and will not try to obtain the directory contents. Walker will look for a configuration file on the target system (walker.ctl, veronica.ctl or robots.txt) and will refrain from traversing those directories that are disallowed. See walker.ctl for the format of this file. The files walker.c, robots.c, *.opt, walker.mms and make_walker.com are required to build walker.exe; "@build xxx" will build walker for the xxx TCP/IP package. Currently Walker will compile and run under DECC/Multinet, DECC/UCX (and probably any TCP/IP package the emulates UCX), VAXC/Multinet, and OSF/1. It hasn't been tested, but should run on VAXC/UCX and generic Unix systems that support a socket interface. glance.c is a program that takes the Walker output file and generates a "Gopher tree at a glance". walker_index.com will invoke build_index and generate a searchable database of all the gopher titles found. -- Bruce Tanner (310) 860-2451 x 2164 Tanner@Cerritos.edu Cerritos College Norwalk, CA