[gopher] Re: UMN Gopher on Mac OSX

[David Allen <mda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:08:30PM +0000, Luis Oliveira wrote:
> gopher gopher://quux.org/1/Software/Gopher/screenshots says it doesn't
> exist. What's that /1 thing?

The 1 is the file type.  It's a directory.

> gopher gopher://quux.org/Software/Gopher/screenshots works but when I
> try to view the png I get garbage. My web browser does the same. wget
> doesn't support gopher.. How do I view that?

Yeah, that's because he's got it flagged as a file rather than as a
binary file.  Just try to save the file, don't look at it.

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