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NAME
       rophcatch -- watch Gopher holes and catch updates

SYNOPSIS
       rophcatch [-P]

DESCRIPTION
       rophcatch  is a feed reader's equivalent for Gopher. It retrieves
       a Gopher menu and checks if it contains new  items.  This  allows
       you to keep up with another user's phlog, for example.

       rophcatch will print all output to stdout.

       The options are as follows:

       -P      Normally,  rophcatch  will  fetch a preview of each newly
               found selector. This will show  you  an  excerpt  of  new
               phlog posts, for example. Doing so can be costly if there
               are  a  lot  of  new selectors -- for example on the very
               first run, when your database is  still  empty.  In  this
               case,  you  might want to use the -P flag to inhibit pre-
               view fetching.

CONFIGURATION
       rophcatch   will   read   ~/.config/rophcatch/rophcatch.urls   on
       startup. Each line in this file is a Gopher menu to fetch:

             # Phlogs
             gopher://foo.example.com/1/myphlog
             gopher://some.pubnix.net/1/~cathy

             # New servers as announced by floodgap
             gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/new

       Empty lines and lines beginning with a hashtag are ignored.

FILES
       ~/.config/rophcatch/rophcatch.urls
               Default  path  of  your  URLs  file. (The XDG_CONFIG_HOME
               variable is honored.)

       ~/.local/share/rophcatch/seen
               Default path of your database  file.  (The  XDG_DATA_HOME
               variable is honored.)

BUGS
       If  you  find  a bug, I'd happy to hear about it. It's as easy as
       sending an e-mail, please see https://uninformativ.de/bugs.html.

LICENSE
       rophcatch is released under the MIT license. See the accompanying
       LICENSE file.

HISTORY
       rophcatch was originally written by Peter  Hofmann.  The  project
       was started in 2025.

SEE ALSO
       cron(8).

GNU                            2025-08-02                   ROPHCATCH(1)