Check-in by ben on 2025-11-09 16:41:29

Restore about.txt, accidentally deleted in [95f091eb5b]

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         1          0 make.sh
        36          0 src/about.txt
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--- make.sh
+++ make.sh
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@
 
 build_cgi ${SRC}/raw.m4 ${CGI}/debug
 build_cgi ${SRC}/raw.m4 ${CGI}/text
 build_cgi ${SRC}/download.m4 ${CGI}/direct
 build_cgi ${SRC}/raw.m4 ${CGI}/links
+cp ${SRC}/about.txt ${DST}/
 cp ${SRC}/wizard/gophermap  ${CGI}/wizard/
 
 cp pass.tsv ${DST}/pass.tsv
 exit 0

ADDED   src/about.txt
Index: src/about.txt
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--- /dev/null
+++ src/about.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# About PHAROS
+
+Proxy Internet Archive to gopher.
+
+# Search
+
+Example: To find Indian music, excluding commercial samples.
+
+    description:(indian) AND -collection:samples_only AND 
+         mediatype:audio AND subject:music
+
+# Fields
+
+* date:
+  YYYY-MM-DD or [YYYY-MM-DD TO YYYY-MM-DD]
+* mediatype:
+  audio, collection, data, image, movies, software, texts, or web
+
+# Media type key for search results
+
+* [aud] = audio or etree
+* [col] = collection
+* [dat] = data
+* [img] = image
+* [mov] = movies
+* [bin] = software
+* [txt] = texts
+* [web] = web
+
+See also: <https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php>
+
+# Limits
+
+This service does not work in the lagrange browser.
+Lagrange URI encodes the search string and also
+mangles items that are not URI encoded.