[gopher] Re: UM Gopher + FTP question

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"Vlad D. Markov" <markov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:01:15 -0800
> beaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Is the UM gopher client supposed to be able to natively browse ftp sites? 
<snip>
> I don't think there is an anonymous gateway where its pointing.
> The gateway is set in conf.h, you could change it to a valid
> gateway & recompile if you knew of a valid one (I don't).
>
> The folks at Debian are fixing this stuff up, maybe they have
> plans to make ftp work.
>

Wow - someone is _actually_ working on this?!?  Cool indeed.

BTW, thanks for the feedback. After I'd sent off the email I noticed
the message refering to the defunct UM-based gateway. Odd that it
was "hard coded" instead of being in an rc file.

-Beaker
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