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

The guy explaining gopher to me at sdf (he listed some advantages, it 
takes up less space and is simpler and requires no html tags) offered, if 
we have things like grep and sed, to make a small gopher script that would 
work with BL so I could post my files in gopher space.  He could not find 
any such script on the web and was happy to get a copy of this posting.

He seems interested in knowing more about basiclinux too, so I suggested 
he download it to test on.

On Thu, 5 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?

> > > 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

I just realized this requires 'echo', and found it in BL3 busybox but not 
BL2 busybox.  I will warn him about BL2.