Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Randy Westlund Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: Re: Gopherpedia Followup-To: comp.misc,comp.infosystems.gopher Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20140312152233.67afd1d2.rsw@therandymon.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="351219718c09c6f981d0a488f58326d6"; logging-data="24812"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19n+JFapjab6tv0yA8NBQNgmlt6adFE9x8=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0rtvcBjiyYzpmHW3LF/a6wcZK6A= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1536 comp.infosystems.gopher:49 On 2014-03-12, RS Wood wrote: > On 2014-03-12, Randy Westlund wrote: >> elinks does. That's what I use, and it's working for me. >> >> I had only heard of the gopher protocol before, but never played >> around with it. I think this is really useful. With gopherfs, you >> can actually mount a gopher server as a FUSE resource! How awesome is >> that? > > How do you use gopherfs? I don't really 'get' FUSE. I'm not sure. There isn't a good website for it, and it isn't in the gentoo package tree. But I imagine it would work like sshfs does. I can say: #v+ sshfs server.example.com:/home/randy/files /mnt/files #v- And it's mounted as if it were local. It's really handy for situations where you have (for example) a raspberry pi taped to your stereo system running MPD, and the music files stored on your server in the next room :) http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html Doing this with gopherpedia would be cool. You could perhaps have /mnt/gopherpedia mounted, and have your own scripts browse it and do whatever you like. > Just thought of an additional benefit: Google doesn't index gopher > sites, considering them dead. Might be good for a little personal > repository of something. Just thinking outloud, here. Interesting, I didn't realize that. From what I've seen so far, gopher seems like it's worth keeping alive.