Subj : MANWIDTH=64 man man-pages | col -bx
To : Maurice Kinal
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Wed Jun 04 2025 11:07 pm
Re: MANWIDTH=64 man man-pages | col -bx
By: Maurice Kinal to Kai Richter on Fri May 30 2025 23:36:08
> indentation". I suspect that MANWIDTH=80 is probably a better choice. I also suspect that the 64 column width was intended for
> smart devices with limited display real estate (columns x lines). If so then I am even less interested in making something like
> this work given my utter distain for smart devices.
In my original post I had chosen 64 columns wide is from the link below, so my gopher pages could have enough width left over to pretty some of the text with boxes.
Below is the reference I'm mentioning.
Linkname:The Gopher Toybox: sample gophermaps to create your own server
URL:
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/gopher/toybox
(DIR) Floodgap Systems gopher root
<- 67 chars ------------------------------------------------------>
Welcome to the Toybox, a sample set of gophermaps so you can see
how to create your own. This simple set demonstrates external
links, informational text lines, and local files and directories.
Open this up in another window so you can compare:
(FILE) Toybox: See the contents of the Toybox gophermap
This works with Bucktooth (and SDF), pygopherd, and any server
compatible with the gophermap menu format.
The 67 character display string length is a suggestion for
compatibility with older clients.
These lines have no tabs in them, so they are shown as text.
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* Origin: Lunar Outpost - lunarout.synchro.net (1:138/397)
