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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> 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

That works perfectly!  Is 70 a port?
How exactly does the above work?

> Maybe this could be made into a shell script.

'gopher'
echo $1 | nc $2 > $3

gopher /users/pigpen/README freeshell.org README

gopher /users/pigpen/* freeshell.org README

If I leave out the file name, and use your echo script directly, it 
downloads a list of what is in pigpen:


ipigpen's gopher place  /users/pigpen/fake      sdf.lonestar.org        70
i---------------------  /users/pigpen/fake      sdf.lonestar.org        70
0README /users/pigpen/README    sdf.lonestar.org        70       *
1pigpen /users/pigpen/pigpen    sdf.lonestar.org        70       *

Are these two files?  How can we tell the file size before downloading?

> > I can get 100MB free gopherspace here to post BL files.
> > Does it download any faster than http?
>
> It might be a little faster.
Any drawbacks?

I wonder why busybox and links don't do gopher.


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