[gopher] Re: Heads up

[Timm Murray <hardburn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday 11 January 2002 10:36, you wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2002, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Konq is, AFAICT, the first interface to gopher that really shows it like
> > it should be -- as a global filesystem.  You can drag-and-drop, view
> > gopherspace as a tree (just as you would your local filesystem), etc.
> > The idea is awesome.
>
> Something I'd like to see is a gopher shell extension for Windows,
> doing for gopher what TortoiseCVS[1] does for CVS. You'd be able
> to mount a gopher tree and treat it like any other drive. I'd
> have a go at writing it myself, but I don't have the tools or
> the knowledge of MFC.
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GNU/HURD is an excelent OS for doing such things.  HURD can already mount FTP 
servers as a filesystem.  This means you can do things like "cat 
/mnt/ftp/user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/path/to/file".  I think Gopher 
would work even better, and probably wouldn't be so hard to do (Gopher is 
quite a bit simpler than FTP).

- -- 
Real programmers don't eat quiche.  They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
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