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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Applying Vulcan Mind-Meld on a Gopher...
- Message-ID: <19921118173014SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:30:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.154723.27357@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.154723.27357@macc.wisc.edu>,
- kaufman@macc.wisc.edu (Peter Kaufman) writes:
-
- ...
-
- >Hence, the Gopher Mindset I would recommend is to create the
- >subdirectory structure, load it with .link files and put all the data
- >files off the root.
-
- What I've often ended up doing is creating a directory with a .Links
- file, a handful of other files referenced by the .Links file, and
- an etc directory which contains all the real data. The .Links then
- refers to the files in the etc directory, which (as we all know) is
- ignored by Gopher when building its menu.
-
- I sometimes include a bin directory with a "makegophermenu" script
- geared toward the unique needs of the kind of data stored in the
- directory in question, which can be run whenever files are added
- or changed to recreate the .Links file.
-
- --
- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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