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keyboardan 5fd93ce40f Since is ambiguity between tilde.club or Tilde.club, opt for
Tilde.club.

The exceptions is when refering to tilde.club as a directory, or as a
host, or when refering to the tilde.club server.

The goal is to always refer to the Tilde.club community with a capital
T.

Signed-off-by: keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club>
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Tilde.club now serves gopher! we're using gophernicus as our gopherd.

user pages are served from your ~/public_gopher dirs and can be accessed at gopher://tilde.club/1/~username. note that the itemtype 1 is required.

basic gophermap syntax

files named gophermap are the gopher equivalent to index.html. each line in a gophermap consists of the following parts separated by literal tab characters:

  • item type
  • display name
  • selector
  • host
  • port

for example:

1tildeclub<tab>/<tab>tilde.club<tab>70

basic item types include:

  • 0 - text file
  • 1 - directory
  • 7 - search query
  • 9 - binary file
  • g - gif image
  • h - html file
  • i - info text
  • I - generic image file (not a gif)

gophernicus also supports the following special types:

  • # - comment

  • !title - only valid on the first line

  • -file - hide file from listings

  • :ext=type - change filetype

  • ~ - include a list of users with a valid ~/public_gopher

  • =mapfile - include or execute a script or gophermap

  • - - stop processing gophermap and include file listing

  • . - stop processing gophermap (default)

additional resources

see gophernicus' gophermap documentation for more info on available item types and other special selectors.

if you're completely new to gopher, check out the gopher zone!