# UMN gopher no more

I've been an evangelist for this ancient browser with all its bugs
and even, unsuccessfully, attempted to get my fixes added to the main
repo on github.

I won't go into details but my patch was basically thrown back at me
with a bunch of requests for changes I saw no merit in. I refused in
no uncertain terms and in response any further communication was
blocked by the repo owner. The owner also appears to have no personal
interest in fixing any of the reported issues[0].

I've taken some time to think about the situation and the end result
is that I have consigned UMN gopher to the great bit-bucket in the
sky. There is no future in it.


## Future gophering

I had the idea some time ago for a client-less gopher client.
Essentially just a filter to de-gopher gopher maps, exposing the
links so that they can be accessed via my terminal[1], or display the
content of files.

I have made a very basic filter[2] which seems to do what I need.
Although I will also need to make a script to handle complete gopher
URI's and request input for type 7 selectors.

Example usage:
> $ echo "" | nc gopher.icu 70 | ./degopher.awk | less


## References

[0](gopher://gopher.icu/0/phlog/Computing/Display-lines-and-UMN-gopher.md)
[1](gopher://gopher.icu/0/phlog/Computing/Smart-terminal-not-client.md)
[2](gopher://gopher.icu/0/files/degopher.awk)

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