                      GN Release 2.0
        A Free Multi-protocol Server for Gopher and HTTP


FEATURES:       ( *  means new in version 2.0)

     o  GN serves two protocols gopher0 and HTTP/1.0,
        the protocol used by WWW clients.  GN recognizes the protocol
        from the request and responds appropriately. This allows the
        use of WWW browsers like Mosaic in their native mode.

     o  Over 60K of documentation.

     o  Eases migration from gopher to WWW

     o  Per Directory Access control.

     o  Support for WAIS index searches. 

     o  Support for structured files.

     o  Support for compressed files.

     o  Builtin menu hierarchy searches.

     o  Free for any use, commercial or otherwise! (GNU license)

     o	Runs under inetd or as standalone daemon (*)

AVAILABLE BY ANONYMOUS FTP:

    FTP to: ftp.acns.nwu.edu 
    Get file pub/gn/gn-2.0.tar.gz

OR VIA GOPHER:

    Server: hopf.math.nwu.edu     port 70
    Get file:  gn-2.0.tar.gz

    You can also browse the source and documentation here.



Gn is a gopher/HTTP server which is written in C and runs under UNIX.
It is freely available for any use, commercial or otherwise.  The
software is freely redistributable under the terms of the GNU public
license.  There is good documentation -- three man pages and an
extensive installation and maintenance guide.

Gn has "per directory" access control.  You can have different access
(by IP address or subnet) to every directory if you want to. You don't
need to run different servers on different ports to have different
levels of access!  

Gn supports the standard text and binary types, including sound and
image.  Index types include programs (or shell scripts) which return
"virtual directories" and also "grep" type searches.  GN runs under
inetd or as a standalone daemon.  When run standalone root priviliges
are not necessary. See the Installation Guide.

The GN gopher/http protocol server has support for WAIS index
searches. This means you can index a collection of files with the
index software designed for use with WAIS (Wide Area Information
Server) and the gn server will respond to user queries by providing a
menu of those documents from your collection which contain a match for
the user supplied search term. Simple boolean combinations like
`horses and cows' or `fox not goose' are supported.

THANKS

I would like to thank the many people who have aided in the creation
of the gn package, either through writing code or finding and fixing
bugs. They include Earle Ake, Henry Cejtin, Mike Crowley, Paul DuBois,
Stephen Hebditch, Albert Lunde, Jishnu Mukerji, Marko Nordberg, Jim
Rees, Craig Milo Rogers, Chip Rosenthal, Stephen Trier, Ed Vielmetti,
and Rico Tudor.



