Subj : gopher howto help
To   : bbsing
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Dec 01 2023 03:15:59

  Re: gopher howto help
  By: bbsing to All on Thu Nov 30 2023 10:18 pm

 > I hope someone likes gopher :) it seems interesting to me.

Hello,

are you intending to use whatever the sdf uses, or just trying to experiment?

If you just want to experiment, maybe install gophernicus on a local machine
and start from there. Gophernicus has enough documentation to get you started.

Gophermaps are just custom directory files. If you use a server such
as Gophernicus and you want to publish a bunch of txt files, you can just place
all the txt files under a given directory and Gophernicus will create an index
per directory automatically, but it will be a bit ugly. A gophermap is just a
custom prettified version.

Example:

!This is the title of my directory

Here I give you come pretty comment, maybe add ASCII art.
Whatever you write in plaintext is included in the directory listing.

Now I add a link. "0" is for regular txt file,

Then I add the listing name, then I add the pach to the file
I want to serve

0MyFile somefile.txt

Now I generate an autoindex from the contents of the directory

*

\\\\\\\\\

More information at:

gopher.gophernicus.org:70/1

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