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GoServe

Version:

2.52

Release date:

Saturday, 19 September, 1998

Home:

https://www.ibm.com/

License:

Freeware

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Mike Cowlishaw

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)

GoServe is a multi-purpose server for OS/2, which supports the 'Gopher' client-server protocol (as well as the World-Wide Web protocol). The Gopher protocol is described in documents distributed by the University of Minnesota Microcomputer and Workstation Networks Center.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

GoServe v. 2.52 (19/9/1998, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Mike Cowlishaw)	Readme/What's new	2.50 [7 February 1996] * - New SELECTOR option for the QUERY command returns the current selector. * - New NOTIME option on the HEADER command inhibits automatic generation of Expires: or Last-Modifed: header lines. * - Improved handling of erased files -- if a data file is erased, any cache errors from this will cause the file cache entry to be cleared and the filter to be called as usual. * - A dormant connection which is cleared due to LIMITTIMEINACTIVE being exceeded does not cause the limits count to be incremented (though it will still be audited). * - The workaround for the persistent connections TCP/IP problem, as in the 2.48 test version of GoServe, is now included.
ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/os2_ews/goserv.zip	local copy
GoServe v. 1.20 (25/1/1994, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Mike Cowlishaw)
www.os2site.com/sw/internet/sre/goserv98.zip	local copy