[gopher] Re: The road ahead

[Ralph Furmaniak <sugaku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> might change to:
>
> Development Projects    gopher://gopher.quux.org:70/1/devel
> application/x-gopherdir en_US 4132
>
> GOPHER TURNS 10 / GOPHER 3.0 RELEASED
> gopher://gopher.quux.org:70/h/3.0.0.html  text/html en_US 3951
>
> GOPHER TURNS 10 / GOPHER 3.0 RELEASED
> gopher://gopher.quux.org:70/0/3.0.0.txt  text/plain en_US 2000
>
> It might be nice to eliminate the typechar from Gopher URLs.  This may
> require some other protocol changes.

It's interesting that you put it like this, because that is almost how the
gophermaps in my bucktooth can work.  You can put in plain text and it
autowraps it to 65 chars.  Instead of putting the typechar at the beginning
of the line, just put in a space and the server figures it out for you (this
is how I have almost all of my menus now, out of laziness).  It supports
putting in a url as the selector, and if it is a gopher:// url, it
automatically "flattens it".

So you could just put

 GOPHER TURNS 10 / GOPHER 3.0 RELEASED
gopher://gopher.quux.org:70/h/3.0.0.html

                   Or

 GOPHER TURNS 10 / GOPHER 3.0 RELEASED    3.0.0.html

And it would work.
Also, if anybody wants to see how views work in gopher0,gopher+,html,  I put
up some papers in my gopherhole which come in dvi,pdf,LaTeX.  All I had to do
was copy (for example) pyramid.dvi pyramid.pdf pyramid.tex into the
pyramid.dir directory, and the rest was handled by the server.

Anyways, the hole is at (gopher:// or http://) sugaku.homeunix.org and if you
access it as http you can view it in cool themes (default is flames, which I
fixed up to work properly in Netscape now).