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Floodgap Systems gopher root |
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Welcome to the Toybox, a sample set of gophermaps so you can see |
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how to create your own. This simple set demonstrates external |
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links, informational text lines, and local files and directories. |
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Open this up in another window so you can compare: |
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Toybox: See the contents of the Toybox gophermap |
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This works with Bucktooth (and SDF), pygopherd, and any server |
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compatible with the gophermap menu format. |
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The 67 character display string length is a suggestion for |
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compatibility with older clients. |
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These lines have no tabs in them, so they are shown as text. |
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These lines have tabs, so they are links (to a local directory): |
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Toybox: See the contents of the gopherstuff/ directory |
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(since the gopherstuff/ directory has no gophermap, it's simply listed |
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Toybox: Link to a text file in the gopherstuff/ directory |
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Toybox: Link to a GIF file in the gopherstuff/ directory |
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Toybox: Link to the entire contents of toybox/ |
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(This is actually a copy of the entire toybox/ directory!) |
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The tab separates the display string and the selector (path). If |
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you don't use a full path, then it is relative to this one. |
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The item type tells the gopher client what that menu item is. It is |
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always the first character in a line with tabs. These item types |
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here were 1 (a menu), 0 (a text file), g (a GIF image) and 9 (a |
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generic downloadable binary). |
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Other item types include I = generic image or JPEG. |
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If you just use a display string and a selector, then your host name |
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and port are filled in. If you add a host and port, then it becomes |
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an external link like these: |
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Add a search engine link! This is external. Item type 7 means a |
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server you can send a request to. |
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Search Veronica-2 |
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Add links to other gopherspaces! Use item type 1 for a gopher menu |
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otherwise. |
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gopher.floodgap.com |
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gopher.quux.org |
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Add links to web pages! Use item type h and a URL: (a "hURL"). |
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Don't use a host and port; that's part of the URL already. |
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A web link to www.floodgap.com |
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Download the Toybox yourself so you can play with it. |
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Toybox: Link to the entire contents of toybox/ |
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Send comments and suggestions on this tutorial to [email protected] |
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