[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > As for item types here's one possible list that seems to conform more
> > or less to current practices:
> > 
> >   0   Text file
> >   1   Directory
> >   2   CSO phone-book server
> >   3   Error
> >   4   BinHexed Macintosh file
> >   5   Any binary archive
> >   6   Uuencoded file
> >   7   Index-Search server
> >   8   Telnet session
> >   9   Binary file
> >   +   Redundant server
> >   T   tn3270 session
> >   g   GIF image
> >   I   Any non-GIF image file
> >   i    informational text
> >   h   HTML file or Web-link
> >   x   XML file
> >   d   Any document file (PDF, PostScript, or word processor formats)
> >   s   Any audio file
> >   ;   Any video file
> 
> Now this would be an excellent thing to get sorted out. I don't think theres
> ever been an clear agreement about filetypes... For example I use "M" for
> mbox (can't remeber where I got that), "p" for pdf/ps, "c" for calendar
> files (ics), documents are under "9" and not "d" etc etc. 

Interesting. I've been using 'd' for documents, and 'p' for PNG images
(Overbite also uses this).

Someone proposed using 'c' for text/css but I don't know if that ever got off
the ground.

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