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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-01-07 13:17:20 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-01-07 13:17:20 (GMT)
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Added index entry for the protocol.
Fixed typo (extra char in the word "character"). Minor nits.
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
\section{Standard Module \sectcode{gopherlib}}
\label{module-gopherlib}
\stmodindex{gopherlib}
+\indexii{Gopher}{protocol}
\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module gopherlib)}
@@ -10,16 +11,16 @@ URLs that use the Gopher protocol.
The module defines the following functions:
-\begin{funcdesc}{send_selector}{selector\, host\optional{\, port}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{send_selector}{selector, host\optional{, port}}
Send a \var{selector} string to the gopher server at \var{host} and
-\var{port} (default 70). Return an open file object from which the
-returned document can be read.
+\var{port} (default \code{70}). Returns an open file object from
+which the returned document can be read.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{send_query}{selector\, query\, host\optional{\, port}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{send_query}{selector, query, host\optional{, port}}
Send a \var{selector} string and a \var{query} string to a gopher
-server at \var{host} and \var{port} (default 70). Return an open file
-object from which the returned document can be read.
+server at \var{host} and \var{port} (default \code{70}). Returns an
+open file object from which the returned document can be read.
\end{funcdesc}
Note that the data returned by the Gopher server can be of any type,
@@ -27,5 +28,5 @@ depending on the first character of the selector string. If the data
is text (first character of the selector is \samp{0}), lines are
terminated by CRLF, and the data is terminated by a line consisting of
a single \samp{.}, and a leading \samp{.} should be stripped from
-lines that begin with \samp{..}. Directory listings (first charactger
+lines that begin with \samp{..}. Directory listings (first character
of the selector is \samp{1}) are transferred using the same protocol.