[gopher] Questions about the UMN gopher client

[Héctor Abreu]

Hi,

@Kacper  Thank you very much! Yes, now I understand and I can access both,
the resources with "w" and the menus under a selector with "o".

@Cameron  Thank you for the info! I guess I will email John directly
sometimes. I like Lynx and use it everyday for web browsing in the command
line, but for some strange reason I have not been able to make Lynx to work
with UTF-8 correctly in gopher when the client is installed on ARM
(Raspberry Pi). Lynx displays UTF-8 in gopher correctly only when installed
on my non-ARM Linux boxes (AMD, Intel). The old UMN gopher client does
display UTF-8 correctly regardless the architecture. I guess the problem is
somewhere in the combination of Lynx + ARM + Gopher. Also, the UMN client
allows me to go directly to an item in a directory by entering its number
and hitting Enter. With Lynx I have to go through all the items 1 by 1...
but yes, Lynx is "sexier" than UMN client.

Regards,

Héctor.

2016-05-28 14:55 GMT-04:00 Kacper Gutowski <mwgamera at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Héctor Abreu wrote:
> (...)
> > For example, if I try to connect directly to the following link:
> >
> > gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/gopher/relevance.txt
> >
> > The "Connect to a new Gopher Server" window will take me to that server
> if I
> > leave Selector blank, but if I want to go directly to the mentioned
> document
> > it will not connect me but will tell me that the resource can not be
> found.
> > I tried by filling out Selector with /0/gopher/relevance.txt  or
> > 0/gopher/relevance.txt  or  /gopher/relevance.txt and other combinations
> > without success.
>
> Notice that this window has no place to provide the type of a
> resource.  It's not supposed to be used to retrieve arbitrary
> resources but to switch to another server.  The client blindly
> expects server to return a gopher menu under the selector you
> give it there.  Since the text document actually returned can't
> be parsed as such, it just gives you an error.  Perhaps the
> wording could be better, but "nothing available" simply means
> there were zero items found in the menu.
>
> To navigate to arbitrary resource, you can press "w" rather than
> "o" and it will then prompt you to type an URL which contains the
> type as part of its path as usual.
>
> -k
>
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