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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 1/4/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Does BL3 have any way to access gopher space?
>
> Lynx works, links and wget do not (at sdf) or maybe I need to use them
> differently.

Well, there's always the crude method:

To download gopher://freeshell.org/users/pigpen/README to
the current directory (overwriting any file named README):

echo /users/pigpen/README | nc freeshell.org 70 >README

Maybe this could be made into a shell script.

> I can get 100MB free gopherspace here to post BL files.
> Does it download any faster than http?

It might be a little faster.

David