Gopher Protocol Question

Hal Belisle (belisle@mind.net)
Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:24:47 -0800

Hi! my name is Hal Belisle and I am new to this list. I am writing a small
web client (spider?) that automatically searches specific sites on a
bi-weekly basis for information using existing search engines. I am having a
hard time with gophers. I can gain access and retrieve files, but I can't
seem to give them a valid search string. What exactly do you replace the ?
you normally see in web searches with when you query a gopher? Any help or
pointers to other sources of information (i.e. a listserve for web clients)
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Hal Belisle