Subj : MANWIDTH=64 man man-pages | col -bx
To   : Grant Weasner
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu Jun 05 2025 09:49:23

Hey Grant!

> In my original post I had chosen 64 columns wide is from the link
> below, so my gopher pages could have enough width left over to
> pretty some of the text with boxes.

Looking at it in vim I note that the total line length is 74 columns which doesn't leave much for adding line/box drawing characters.  64 seems like a good default given the typical 80 column x 24 line terminals assuming that your sticking with the 7 column indentation.  Is that the basic plan?

> Below is the reference I'm mentioning.

I did a 'lynx -dump gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/toybox' which replicates what you posted ... and then some.  As for fetching files from a gopher server, curl works.

Life is good,
Maurice

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