Subj : Re: gopher howto help To : bbsing From : xqtr Date : Fri Dec 01 2023 20:51:57 bb> well I'm just trying to figure out how to make the gopher menu and mod tha bb> file to link to basic docs that the gopher server renders. A gopher site, is like any other site... you have directories with files. You can organize your tree structure, as you would like to have your site, but it's not 100% necessary, as you could also have a gopher site, in just a directory, with all the files in it. But for better organization, choose to have directories. The whole job, is done by the files, called "gophermap". These are text files, with a "special" structure inside them. The pages you are seeing, as browsing a gopher site, are those gophermap files. In gopher, you can also browse the directories, as they are and download files, but if you want to make anything else (write text, have links, use code) you have to have a gophermap file inside that directory. So a typical gopher site could be like this: / gophermap readme.txt downloadme.zip another.txt files + gophermap mystic.zip crack.zip docs + gophermap bible.pdf hacking101.pdf warez + coreldraw10.zip win98.zip Check that the warez dir, doesn't have a gophermap file. ;) So when you direct your gopher browser at yourdomain.com:70/files, the browser, reads that gophermap and "renders" it, as a web browser would render a html file to see it. The gophermap file itself, it's not something to explain here. You must read the RFC file or a tutor about it, get some files from other sites and watch what they have written etc. To download gophermap files, you can use lynx or my browser for Android phones (http://andr01d.zapto.org:8080/gophrite/). Just have in mind, that gopher, uses text lines and is stricted to 70-75 chars per line. Each line, has a special meaning, or it's just text. You can write gophermap files, with just a text editor or you could use my Mystic BBS mod, that creates and "renders" a complete gopher and HTML site, called Gophlog. ;) Good luck... .. :: XQTR :: Another Droid BBS :: andr01d.zapto.org:9999 :: xqtr@gmx.com --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/11/23 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: Another Droid BBS # andr01d.zapto.org:9999 (21:1/111) .