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- From: lamour@gong.mitre.org (Michael Lamoureux)
- Subject: gopher.el? (was: Re: Is There an Open Look Xgopher?)
- In-Reply-To: yandros@MIT.EDU's message of 16 Nov 1992 08:27:37 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:44:39 GMT
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- In article <YANDROS.92Nov16032734@deathtongue.MIT.EDU> yandros@MIT.EDU (Chad Phillip Brown) writes:
-
- > ->From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- >> Sacrificing user satisfaction in favor of some abstract ideal of
- >> purity is, in my opinion, a bad idea.
- >
- > I must say that I agree, and I suspect that most other people will,
- > too. One of the major advantages of gopher that I can see is that the
- > protocol is simple enough that building clients is trivial; for people
- > who want an `pure' interface, there's always the one you mentioned:
- > telnet.
-
- Hmmm, I always thought "pure interface" meant one that worked
- in emacs ;-) If it's really that trivial, has someone bothered to
- create an emacs interface to gopher? Sorry if this is a stupid
- question, but I've been concentrating on WAIS lately, and decided it
- was finally time to look at gopher and WWW.
-
- Thanks,
- Michael
- lamour@mitre.org
-