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- From: boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Re: Gopher Road Map tool "gophertree"
- Keywords: tree listing road map gopher gophertree
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.191020.8187@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:10:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.205327.13158@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing
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- In article <1992Jul21.205327.13158@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> boone@convex.cl.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
- >This tool creates an indented listing of the files in a Gopher server.
- >We feel that a listing like the one created by gophertree will be helpful
- >to new users as they begin using Gopher. Later, as they develop confidence,
- >it becomes a useful index. By default, the listing is set up for printing
- >on standard letter paper, but the program is configurable. A sample listing
- >appears below.
-
- A couple of notes that I probably should have included in the first place.
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- 1. gophertree won't follow links off the machine where it started, to prevent
- recursive behavior.
-
- 2. Matching of the hostname is essentially of the string-compare nature, so
- you need to specify the complete domain name on the command line.
-
- 3. To start with the root directory, specify no path, for best results.
-
- 4. We intend to post the report in some convenient place in our hierarchy
- as part of the production service.
-
- Dennis Boone
- Michigan State University
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- == Frustration is portable. ==
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