[gopher] Re: Heads up

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MJ Ray <markj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > What I'd like to see most is Konqueror gopher support debugged -- or
> > some other filemanager implement konqueror-like support.  [...]
> 
> Someone write a gopher module for AVFS and then we get it in all Linux file
> managers (and I think Solaris ones too).

Hmm, I had never heard of AVFS before, but I'll take a look.

> It's a shame that a lot of the feedback seems to rely on gopher+,  as I
> understand it... or is it possible to do interesting applications with
> gopher alone?

Everything mentioned in my e-mails is possible with gopher (aka
gopher0) alone.  So is the "mountable gopher filesystem" concept.

Gopher+ adds, basically: MIME types, modification date, multiple
views, multiple language support.  You don't need that for a
filesystem view.

-- John