2024-03-16 BLOG - GOPHER - ELPHER
Copies of my blog posts are available as Gopher posts. Here is how.
Why?
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Because it is simple.
Apart from the text itself, Gopher comes with is very little
distraction. If only all professional systems could be like that.
Thanks, Matto[0], for the encouragement.
Install Gophernicus
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For serving gopher, we use Gophernicus[1]. It's available on Debian, so
installing it is, like:
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| apt install gophernicus
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Configuring
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The Debian packagers explain they expect gopher files to be in
/srv/gopher. That needs to be created.
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| mkdir /srv/gopher/
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Add content
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Put some basic content, such as the sample gophermap.
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| cp /usr/share/doc/gophernicus/examples/gophermap.sample /srv/gopher/gophermap
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Then, spend a weekend writing Emacs Lisp utilities to export and
re-format all Org-mode blogs to Ascii.
Converters
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The biggest challenge are image links and hyperlinks.
You need to turn text like this:
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| Here is some text with a hyperlink [Example 123456].
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into a footnote, in two steps:
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| Here is some text with a hyperlink Example 1234561[1].
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With, at the end of the ASCII export text, replacing this:
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| [Example 123456]:
|
https://example.org/cgi-bin/report.cgi?=123456
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by:
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| [1]: :
https://example.org/cgi-bin/report.cgi?=123456
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Use Elpher
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Emacs has a Gopher client, Elpher, which you can install from Elpa/Melpa
easily:
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| M-x package-install RET elpher RET
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and run it:
,----
| M-x elpher
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use 'g' to visit your new gopher site:
elpher.jpg[2]
[0]:
gopher://box.matto.nl
[1]:
http://www.gophernicus.org/
[2]
gopher://gopher.hillenius.net/I/images/elpher.jpg
