Hello Maurice!

17 Jul 2021 05:19, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Me neither.  As far as I can tell I only have lynx that works at the 
 MK> moment although I probably could write a bash script that uses netcat 
 MK> to create a client fidonet-ish app.  There is a Net::Gopher module for 
 MK> perl and I've heard rumours of a python gopher module.

maybe pygopherd cloud be extended to client 
 
 BP>> i would like to do the replacement for ftp:// to gopher:// with
 BP>> it, so i can close that problem with ftp protocol
 MK> Offhand I think ftp is the better option.

if both is READ only :)

but ftp clients try logins and if its possible to ftp upload crap

then gopher wins

 BP>> i dont know much on how to build gopher pages yet
 MK> Other than a client script for kermit, I havem't used gopher in 
 MK> roughly 30 years now.

you tell me after 30 years ?

 BP>> feel free to send me example pages in netmail to test with
 MK> This is your idea not mine but if I get more curious about it I might 
 MK> try something out that may or may not be of any interest to your goal 
 MK> for it.

my touch is to change filebase to be in gopher root dir as it was on ftp here, so gopher://fido.junc.eu/pub/ will be with same content as ftp://ftp:ftp@fido.junc.eu/pub :)

 MK> I can't see this idea catching on though beyond a server and 
 MK> a few clients on smartphones.

this is my goal

 MK> Gopher might be a better option than 
 MK> sms messaging and the such.  Is that what you're thinking?

mo i have jabber server for this

me@xmpp.junc.eu if you like to connect


 Regards Benny

... too late to die young :)

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