/users/peteyboy/phlog/03-12-14 on sdf.org

	Hard to Phlog
	Wednesday Mar 12 12:06:28 2014
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	So,this is what I thought my first real phlog post
	look like:

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	Let the phlogging commence!

	So I am trying some phlog software because it turns
	out it is not completely trivial to make gopher sites.
	Let us see if I have set
	up germ correctly or not.
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	Turns out the answer was 'no', because it turns out that
	CGI scripts in gopher have been disabled here on SDF, so
	there was no way to set it up so it would work.

	SO YOU CANNOT USE GERM OR SLERM on sdf. No cool comments on
	your posts or auto-archiving.

	So I learned two things the hard way while trying to figure out
	how to start a blog on an almost-dead network:

	First, I learned that although all the cool phlogging tools,
	even though developed here on SDF--germ, slerm--that rely
	on a .cgi file won't work (thanks, slugmax). This sort of
	CGI program apparently was once allowed to run on SDF, but
	now is not. It says so in red letters all the way at the
	bottom of this page:

	http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher

	Second, I learned that the shell-script-based alternative
	tool that I was told to use from someone welcoming me to
	gopherspace (thanks, tomatobodhi)--mkphlog-- was written
	in ksh, which I thought to be a problem because I had switched
	my shell to a more universal bash. But after a bit, I realized
	mkphlog's real problem is that it is saved with Windows/MS-DOS
	linefeeds, and you need to run 'dos2unix' on it in addition to
	setting it executable for it to work (that is what the
	#/bin/ksh line addresses in the script).

	So here I am, this is, I hope, my first working phlog post.
	Talley-ho!

	Thanks to the following phloggers for their help:

	slugmax
	tomatobodhi
	chal, the one who wrote mkphlog
	chal's mkphlog and related downloads