I put the latest version of 'phlogit' in /sys/sdf/bin and checked
it into RCS there, so it is available to all SDF users who have
/sys/sdf/bin/ in their path. MetaARPA members can edit it.

If you have not yet setup your gopherspace on SDF, run 'mkgopher'
and then type 'setup'. You should also probably read the gopher
tutorial [0][1].

To use phlogit for the first time, create a text phlog post in your
phlog directory - by default this is ~/gopher/phlog. Let's say
you named the file 'first-post'. You would then create an empty
gophermap and run phlogit. Here is the full, first-time sequence:

   mkdir ~/gopher/phlog && chmod 755 ~/gopher/phlog
   vi ~/gopher/phlog/first-post
   touch ~/gopher/phlog/gophermap
   phlogit -t 'First Post' -f first-post

Add a '-w' if you want phlogit to wrap your text to 68 chars. That's
it! You will then see your first post:

   lynx gopher://sdf.org/1/users/username/phlog

Replace 'username' with your own username of course.

After the first post, you can just add posts by creating them in
~/gopher/phlog and re-running phlogit. The script will take care of
inserting the new post blurb at the top of the existing gophermap
(this is just the first paragraph of your post), linking to the text
file and setting the correct perms so posts are visible in gopher
clients. If you mess something up, you can always edit the gophermap
directly to remove the entry and try again.

Note there are lots of other phlog maintenance scripts, the gopher
tutorial [0][1] has a list. Phlogit itself is based on mkgopherentry,
a shell script that works similarly.

[0] http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher
[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/slugmax/docs/gopher/sdf_gopher_tutorial.txt

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