GOPHER for VMS, PC, MAC...

In this distribution is a small C daemon called g2fd.c.  This is third
incarnation of a Gopher to FTP gateway.  Running this daemon on a UNIX
box gives folks running gopher clients access to all that good stuff
available out there for anonymous ftp.

The principle is this: the gopher client connects to the g2fd daemon
and tells it what the name of the ftp site is, (and perhaps what file
it wishes to retrieve from there).  The daemon connects to the remote
host, retrieves a directory listing (or file) via anonymous ftp, and
returns it to the gopher client.  Of course all this happens without
any new knowledge by the gopher client.


The daemon assumes a
 nice healthy unixy ftp server at the ftp end...
that is to say it is probably not going to work with funky IBM or
TOPS-20 ftp implementations.  This is left as an exercise for the
hacker...  er... reader.

The daemon is designed to be run by inetd as a TCP daemon.
The easiest way to explain how to set it up and how it works
is to use an example.

A somewhat more recent vms Gopher is present in compressed Tar
format also.