[gopher] filename extensions

[Cameron Kaiser]

> I'm mirroring the Interactive Fiction Archive at gopher.feedle.net and 
> have a problem for which I cannot find an answer.  There are a lot of 
> files in the archive and so I have a single gophermap file listing the 
> root of the archive.  Below that there are no gophermap files.  Some files 
> have their extensions removed, particularly .txt, .zip, and .tar.gz.  How 
> can I make sure that extensions aren't truncated?  Is the only solution to 
> write a script to digest the Master-Index.xml file to emit gophermap files 
> for each and every subdirectory?

What's your server software? I don't know of any that truncates the extension
like that.

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