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Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.

From IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length.
Date 2025-03-02 10:58 +0000
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Arti F. Idiot <addr@is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> Hey, very nice!
> 
> If you're still up for more UMN Gopher client hacking you might
> try getting it to scroll multi-page menus that DON'T have actual
> links, i.e. phlogs that are menus consisting of mostly Type "i".
> It seems to be the only client I've tested that fails to scroll
> these types of menus.
> 
> Cheers,
> A.I.

Would you believe that back in time it actually used to work this way?
It was a deliberate change by the developers at the time to prevent it.
I remember reading a comment in the code somewhere...

Multi page menus do actually work fine, it's where there are entire
pages with nothing but "i" lines. This only happens where people
attempt to put their content into a menu to make pseudo web pages.

There are better ways to achieve in-text linking:
gopher://gopher.icu:70/0/phlog/Computing/Smart-terminal-not-client.md

I, like Nerd Kev, personally don't agree with people turning menus into
pseudo web pages. Not only because it makes chunks of them largely
unreadable in this client, it also prevents you using the email, print
and download features.

The protocol was designed to share files, not menus IMHO...

Best regards,

IanJ

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UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-02-25 18:57 +0000
  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-26 21:29 +0000
  Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:03 +0000
    Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com> - 2025-02-28 09:35 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-02-28 22:21 +0000
    Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-01 20:30 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. "Arti F. Idiot" <addr@is.invalid> - 2025-03-01 20:42 -0700
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-03-02 15:59 +1000
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-02 10:58 +0000
          Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. jeojet@not.valid - 2025-03-02 16:13 +0000
            Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-02 18:36 +0000
          Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. morena <morena@morena.rip> - 2025-03-03 20:39 +0100
            Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 21:00 +0000
              Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. morena <morena@morena.rip> - 2025-03-03 23:42 +0100
                Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:04 +0000
      Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. Stone Fox <stone@unix.dog> - 2025-03-02 21:34 +0000
        Re: UMN Gopher - menu title length. IanJ <SPAMian_jones_01@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> - 2025-03-03 23:23 +0000

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