Floodgap Systems gopher root | |
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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: | |
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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These lines have tabs, so they are links (to a local directory): | |
Toybox: See the contents of the stuff/ directory | |
(since the stuff/ directory has no gophermap, it's simply listed) | |
Toybox: Link to a text file in the stuff/ directory | |
Toybox: Link to a GIF file in the stuff/ directory | |
Toybox: Link to the entire contents of toybox/ | |
(This is actually a copy of the entire toybox/ directory!) | |
The tab separates the display string and the selector (path). If | |
you don't use a full path, then it is relative to this one. | |
The item type tells the gopher client what that menu item is. It is | |
always the first character in a line with tabs. These item types | |
here were 1 (a menu), 0 (a text file), g (a GIF image) and 9 (a | |
generic downloadable binary). | |
Other item types include I = generic image or JPEG. | |
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If you just use a display string and a selector, then your host name | |
and port are filled in. If you add a host and port, then it becomes | |
an external link like these: | |
Add a search engine link! This is external. Item type 7 means a | |
server you can send a request to. | |
Search Veronica-2 | |
Add links to other gopherspaces! Use item type 1 for a gopher menu | |
otherwise. | |
gopher.floodgap.com | |
gopher.quux.org | |
Add links to web pages! Use item type h and a URL: (a "hURL"). | |
Don't use a host and port; that's part of the URL already. | |
A web link to www.floodgap.com | |
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Download the Toybox yourself so you can play with it. | |
Toybox: Link to the entire contents of toybox/ | |
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Send comments and suggestions on this tutorial to [email protected] |