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- From: lbrintle@tinyblue.cs.uiowa.edu (Lee Brintle)
- Subject: Re: Gopher and Security
- Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202443.3270@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:24:43 GMT
- Reply-To: lbrintle@tinyblue.cs.uiowa.edu (Lee Brintle)
- References: <1992Nov22.155324.19094@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.155324.19094@news.acns.nwu.edu>, john@math.nwu.edu
- (John Franks) writes:
- |> While we're talking wish list, let me echo the comments made several
- |> times here earlier, that it would be much easier to maintain a gopher
- |> if all the .cap/* files for a directory were combined in a single file
- |> for each diretory which could also contain all the .link entries.
- |> Maybe for Gopher+ ?
-
- At the gopher conference, I presented our hacks to the gopher server, one
- of which did what you describe. Basically, we have .mnu files which are
- .Link files. The response line for an item might be:
- 1/about/about.mnu
- where about.mnu is one of these files. As an example, I'll include our main-
- menu file:
-
- .info
- Welcome to Panda at the University of Iowa. For a quick listing of
- help, type a question mark (?) and press return or enter. For a longer
- help listing, type "help" and press return.
-
- .endinfo
-
- Name=About Panda
- Type=1
- Path=1/.about
-
- Type=1
- Name=General Information
- Path=1/.general
-
- Type=1
- Name=Iowa City Information
- Path=1/.ic
-
- Type=1
- Name=Online Information Services
- Path=1/.online
-
- Type=1
- Name=University of Iowa Information
- Path=1/.uiowa
-
- Which produces a screen like the following:
-
- Page 1 of 1 Main Menu
-
- Welcome to Panda at the University of Iowa. For a quick listing of
- help, type a question mark (?) and press return or enter. For a longer
- help listing, type "help" and press return.
-
- --> 1. About Panda...
- 2. General Information...
- 3. Iowa City Information...
- 4. Online Information Services...
- 5. University of Iowa Information...
-
-
- They are *much* easier to set up than using .link files and the such. In
- particular, we never have "hidden" (dot) files in our tree (except for the
- above, which are so heavily cross-referenced we're afriad to get rid of 'em)
- and our file names are almost always sensible.
-
-
- Lee Brintle | ``And so, I leave you with this final word:
- Project Panda | twang.''
-