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phlog [005] made 2025-06-06... |
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Someone on SDF purportedly wrote a simple Gemini URI fetcher in ANSI C, |
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something similar to curl(1) or wget(1). Unfortunately I could not get |
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it to build on either NetBSD (what the main SDF cluster runs) nor LMDE |
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(a Debian-based variant of Linux Mint). Too bad as it's not a bad idea. |
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The project's README states it's relying on the openssl libraries for the |
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TLS negotiation so I thought "why not implement this in AWK using either |
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ncat(1) and/or openssl-s_client(1) ?", which turned out to be fairly easy: |
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$ gemcat -h |
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gemcat - a simple CLI Gemini client for Unix. |
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usage: gemcat [-h|Gemini_URI] ; "gemini://" prefix optional |
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ex: gemcat gemini://geminiprotocol.net/ |fold -s |
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gemcat geminiprotocol.net/news/ |less |
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note: requires openssl(1); uses ncat(1) if installed. |
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The script should run for any RTC members under ~woog/bin/gemcat and |
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can be otherwise gotten below: |
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gemcat.awk |
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The majority of Unix/Linux/BSD boxes have at least openssl installed |
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so other than maybe tweaking the "#!" path and possibly the usage scheme |
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if mawk or gawk aren't available it ought to be mostly usable as-is. |
