• Tales of the Necromancer

    From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to All on Fri Oct 23 19:35:13 2020
    Hello!

    As you may already know, I have been writing a fiction series with science-fiction and fantasy components. I am about to launch a website for it, but I still have some hard decisions to make.

    The first one is how to call the series. I have been refering to it as The Necromancer Series but I don't know how good that is for English speaker's ears. Maybe Tales of the Necromancer sounds better.

    In a nutshell, the series follows the story of a man who finds himself gifted with ultimate power over Life and Death. My work tells of his adventures throught History, from ancient times where bronze swords were considered the apex of military tech, to the far future where they mess with Higg's field in order to wipe galaxies.

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially since I have to purchase a domain name for it :-)

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  • From Bob Roberts@VERT/HOVAL to Arelor on Sat Oct 24 01:17:39 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to All on Fri Oct 23 2020 12:35 pm

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially since I have to
    purchase a domain name for it :-)

    First off, I applaud you for actually putting pen to paper and doing real writing. It's something I wish I had the patience for.

    I googled around real quick and "Tale of the Necromancer" looks like it's already taken. Some books by Striegal Matthew. Also Chronicles of the Necromancer, and just "The Necromancer" are all taken.

    I would suggest something that gets to the heart of your character. How does he use this power? Does he help or hurt or both? Are there others like him? Does he have an ultimate goal? Does he abuse or is he responsible with this power? Perhaps that might bring some new titles to mind.

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANT to Arelor on Sat Oct 24 04:22:00 2020
    Arelor wrote to All <=-

    As you may already know, I have been writing a fiction series
    with science-fiction and fantasy components. I am about to launch
    a website for it, but I still have some hard decisions to make.

    The first one is how to call the series. I have been refering to
    it as The Necromancer Series but I don't know how good that is
    for English speaker's ears. Maybe Tales of the Necromancer sounds
    better.

    In a nutshell, the series follows the story of a man who finds
    himself gifted with ultimate power over Life and Death. My work
    tells of his adventures throught History, from ancient times
    where bronze swords were considered the apex of military tech, to
    the far future where they mess with Higg's field in order to wipe galaxies.

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially
    since I have to purchase a domain name for it :-)

    The Traveler: From Bronze to Boson

    (domain name bronze2boson). :-)



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 06:34:56 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Bob Roberts to Arelor on Fri Oct 23 2020 06:17 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to All on Fri Oct 23 2020 12:35 pm

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially since I
    have to
    purchase a domain name for it :-)

    First off, I applaud you for actually putting pen to paper and doing real writing. It's something I wish I had the patience for.

    I googled around real quick and "Tale of the Necromancer" looks like it's already taken. Some books by Striegal Matthew. Also Chronicles of the Necromancer, and just "The Necromancer" are all taken.

    I would suggest something that gets to the heart of your character. How does he use this power? Does he help or hurt or both? Are there others like him? Does he have an ultimate goal? Does he abuse or is he responsible with this power? Perhaps that might bring some new titles to mind.


    it should be about jack wimble, a former cop but now a private dic who uses his necromancy skills to solve his cases. also his girlfriend is undead. he comes
    from a long line of necromancers.

    if anybody steals my idea i will sue you into oblivion

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Gamgee on Sat Oct 24 09:58:46 2020
    Re: Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Gamgee to Arelor on Fri Oct 23 2020 09:22 pm

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially
    since I have to purchase a domain name for it :-)

    The Traveler: From Bronze to Boson

    (domain name bronze2boson). :-)

    Not exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, but I put it down in the list of candidates.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 10:03:09 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Bob Roberts to Arelor on Fri Oct 23 2020 06:17 pm

    First off, I applaud you for actually putting pen to paper and doing real writing. It's something I wish I had the patience for.

    I googled around real quick and "Tale of the Necromancer" looks like it's already taken. Some books by Striegal Matthew. Also Chronicles of the Necromancer, and just "The Necromancer" are all taken.

    I would suggest something that gets to the heart of your character. How doe he use this power? Does he help or hurt or both? Are there others like him Does he have an ultimate goal? Does he abuse or is he responsible with this power? Perhaps that might bring some new titles to mind.

    Thanks for the tips.

    The Necromancer's behavior changes quite a bit throughout the series, mainly because he increases in power the older he gets, yet still he has to witness humanity making the same mistakes over and over again. So the idea is there is a bit of burnout.

    By the final segment of the series there will be people worshiping him as a death god, but I don't really want to name the series after the fact because there is a lot that happens earlier.

    hmmmm...

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Sat Oct 24 16:56:28 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 03:03 am


    The Necromancer's behavior changes quite a bit throughout the series, mainly because he increases in power the older he gets, yet still he has to witness humanity making the same mistakes over and over again. So the idea is there is a bit of burnout.


    being a necromancer also helps jack wimble's job greatly when it's a murder mystery. usually he can revive the guy and ask him who killed him.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Sun Oct 25 00:54:00 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: MRO to Bob Roberts on Fri Oct 23 2020 11:34 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Bob Roberts to Arelor on Fri Oct 23 2020 06:17 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to All on Fri Oct 23 2020 12:35 pm

    Any suggestions for naming the series are welcome. Specially since I
    have to
    purchase a domain name for it :-)

    First off, I applaud you for actually putting pen to paper and doing re writing. It's something I wish I had the patience for.

    I googled around real quick and "Tale of the Necromancer" looks like it already taken. Some books by Striegal Matthew. Also Chronicles of the Necromancer, and just "The Necromancer" are all taken.

    I would suggest something that gets to the heart of your character. How does he use this power? Does he help or hurt or both? Are there others like him? Does he have an ultimate goal? Does he abuse or is he responsible with this power? Perhaps that might bring some new titles t mind.


    it should be about jack wimble, a former cop but now a private dic who uses from a long line of necromancers.

    if anybody steals my idea i will sue you into oblivion


    Reminds me of the TV series Pushing Daisies from 10 years ago. Main
    character can bring back dead, has dead girlfriend and works for forensics solving murders.

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  • From Bob Roberts@VERT/HOVAL to MRO on Sun Oct 25 02:08:35 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: MRO to Bob Roberts on Fri Oct 23 2020 11:34 pm

    it should be about jack wimble, a former cop but now a private dic who uses his necromancy skills to
    solve his cases. also his girlfriend is undead. he comes from a long line of necromancers.

    Sounds interesting. Is it light hearted or a satire? Maybe something like Jack Wimble: Zombie Detective. Zombies are hot these days....

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  • From Bob Roberts@VERT/HOVAL to Arelor on Sun Oct 25 02:13:56 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 03:03 am

    The Necromancer's behavior changes quite a bit throughout the series, mainly
    because he increases in power the older he gets, yet still he has to witness
    humanity making the same mistakes over and over again. So the idea is there is
    a bit of burnout.

    Dead Justice
    Judge of the Dead
    Justice Dying
    The Arbitrator
    The God's Man

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Moondog on Sun Oct 25 05:11:47 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Moondog to MRO on Sat Oct 24 2020 05:54 pm


    Reminds me of the TV series Pushing Daisies from 10 years ago. Main character can bring back dead, has dead girlfriend and works for forensics solving murders.


    never heard of it! they cant sue me!

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 05:29:28 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Bob Roberts to MRO on Sat Oct 24 2020 07:08 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: MRO to Bob Roberts on Fri Oct 23 2020 11:34 pm

    it should be about jack wimble, a former cop but now a private dic
    who uses his necromancy skills to
    solve his cases. also his girlfriend is undead. he comes from a long
    line of necromancers.

    Sounds interesting. Is it light hearted or a satire? Maybe something like Jack Wimble: Zombie Detective. Zombies are hot these days....



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    whats this bullshit, bob?
    you think you are on reddit where you can be a downvote bitch?

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 18:10:54 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Bob Roberts to Arelor on Sat Oct 24 2020 07:13 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sat Oct 24 2020 03:03 am

    The Necromancer's behavior changes quite a bit throughout the series, mainly
    because he increases in power the older he gets, yet still he has to witness
    humanity making the same mistakes over and over again. So the idea is there is
    a bit of burnout.

    Dead Justice
    Judge of the Dead
    Justice Dying
    The Arbitrator
    The God's Man

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    |07



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    You get an A for effort.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to MRO on Sun Oct 25 23:37:00 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: MRO to Moondog on Sat Oct 24 2020 10:11 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Moondog to MRO on Sat Oct 24 2020 05:54 pm


    Reminds me of the TV series Pushing Daisies from 10 years ago. Main character can bring back dead, has dead girlfriend and works for forens solving murders.


    never heard of it! they cant sue me!

    Some concepts are not as creative as people think. Back in the 60's and 70's (and maybe later) TV show writers would reject or refuse to read viewer submitted scripts due to providing royalties for story ideas. I recall
    hearing on the commentary track for the Star Trek Animated Series, David Gerrold would get script submissions on the streets, and he'd also get confronted by people he never met about claims he took their scripts. The fun ny thing was many of the ideas he had pitched to him were either in the
    works, or there was a variation of that story line comes up for discussion every season.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/NECROBBS to Arelor on Mon Oct 26 21:17:51 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 11:10 am

    ... This tagline's just for you.


    You get an A for effort.

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/NECROBBS to Moondog on Mon Oct 26 21:19:13 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Oct 25 2020 04:37 pm

    Some concepts are not as creative as people think. Back in the 60's and 70's (and maybe later) TV show writers would reject or refuse to read viewer submitted scripts due to providing royalties for story ideas. I recall hearing on the commentary track for the Star Trek Animated Series, David Gerrold would get script submissions on the streets, and he'd also get confronted by people he never met about claims he took their scripts. The fun ny thing was many of the ideas he had pitched to him were either in the works, or there was a variation of that story line comes up for discussion every season.

    Great minds think alike.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 03:37:32 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Vlk-451 to Arelor on Mon Oct 26 2020 02:17 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 11:10 am

    ... This tagline's just for you.


    You get an A for effort.

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    What in the hell uses gopher protocol? How many obscure layers deep does it Where does it end?


    Well, for starters, Lynx, the popular text mode browser, supports gopher.

    You can also operate gopher over pure telnet if you feel so inclined. I don't recommend it :-P

    Also there are dedicated clients like cgo and such.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Mon Oct 26 14:03:00 2020
    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    claims he took their scripts. The fun ny thing was many of the ideas
    he had pitched to him were either in the works, or there was a
    variation of that story line comes up for discussion every season.

    I had a friend who wrote screenplays, that I swore were written to
    check every possible box and flag a movie studio's legal department
    to buy the screenplay to avoid any future entanglements.

    She made a pretty good side hustle out of it, to the tune of low 5
    figures.



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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Arelor on Tue Oct 27 06:34:31 2020
    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 2020 08:37 pm

    Well, for starters, Lynx, the popular text mode browser, supports gopher.

    You can also operate gopher over pure telnet if you feel so inclined. I don't recommend it :-P

    Also there are dedicated clients like cgo

    So if you can open and operate gopher over a telnet client, I'm assuming the reason you wouldn't being gopher having some kind of 'enhanced' or special functionality. Must have been something to do with UNIX systems.

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 10:52:52 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Vlk-451 to Arelor on Mon Oct 26 2020 11:34 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 2020 08:37 pm

    Well, for starters, Lynx, the popular text mode browser, supports gopher.

    You can also operate gopher over pure telnet if you feel so inclined. I don't recommend it :-P

    Also there are dedicated clients like cgo

    So if you can open and operate gopher over a telnet client, I'm assuming the reason you wouldn't being gopher having some kind of 'enhanced' or special functionality. Must have been something to do with UNIX systems.


    Well, at some point you are going to want to download files and such from the gopher server, and you can't really do that with telnet out of the box. The protocol is not designed to be used via telnet, it is just that you can do it in a pitch :-)

    It is not exactly a UNIX-only thing. It is more like an http or ftp predecessor. In fact, it helps to think of it as http without cookies and headers and connection multiplexing or anything.

    The real deal with gopher is that the protocol is so simple that you can write your own gopher-sites and services with scary ease, and keep the whole thing extremely lightweight for both the user and the administrator.

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/DMINE to Moondog on Tue Oct 27 15:56:00 2020
    Moondog wrote to MRO <=-

    Some concepts are not as creative as people think. Back in the 60's
    and 70's (and maybe later) TV show writers would reject or refuse to
    read viewer submitted scripts due to providing royalties for story
    ideas. I recall hearing on the commentary track for the Star Trek Animated Series, David Gerrold would get script submissions on the streets, and he'd also get confronted by people he never met about
    claims he took their scripts. The fun ny thing was many of the ideas
    he had pitched to him were either in the works, or there was a
    variation of that story line comes up for discussion every season.

    Then there's the problem we have today with copyrighted works that are simply no longer published. Before Disney, etc. extended Copyright way past the originally intended 28 years, those works fell into the public domain, making it much easier for people to view them.

    And, for authors, to read the authors that came before them.


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  • From anthk@VERT to Arelor on Wed Oct 28 02:12:00 2020
    Arelor wrote to Vlk-451 <=-

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    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Vlk-451 to Arelor on Mon Oct 26 2020 02:17 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Bob Roberts on Sun Oct 25 2020 11:10 am

    ... This tagline's just for you.


    You get an A for effort.

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    What in the hell uses gopher protocol? How many obscure layers deep does it Where does it end?


    Well, for starters, Lynx, the popular text mode browser, supports
    gopher.

    You can also operate gopher over pure telnet if you feel so inclined. I don't recommend it :-P

    Also there are dedicated clients like cgo and such.

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 22:26:20 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Vlk-451 to Arelor on Mon Oct 26 2020 11:34 pm

    Re: Tales of the Necromancer
    By: Arelor to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 2020 08:37 pm

    Well, for starters, Lynx, the popular text mode browser, supports gopher.

    You can also operate gopher over pure telnet if you feel so inclined. I don't recommend it :-P

    Also there are dedicated clients like cgo

    So if you can open and operate gopher over a telnet client, I'm assuming the reason you wouldn't being gopher having some kind of 'enhanced' or special functionality. Must have been something to do with UNIX systems.

    Most TCP protocols can be operated via Telnet (or rather, a raw TCP connection, e.g. netcat). That doesn't mean you *want* to (e.g. send an email, download a file via http), but it's possible.
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  • From anthk@VERT to Digital Man on Wed Oct 28 03:02:01 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Digital Man to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 03:26 pm


    There's a gopher client built around netcat, echo and less:

    nago.sh

    https://github.com/hb9kns/nago

    It works well.


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/HAVENS to anthk on Wed Oct 28 20:46:06 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: anthk to Digital Man on Tue Oct 27 2020 08:02 pm

    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Digital Man to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 03:26 pm

    There's a gopher client built around netcat, echo and less:

    nago.sh
    https://github.com/hb9kns/nago

    It works well.

    Entirely in terminal. I still need to switch OSs before I consider any software like that.
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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Digital Man on Wed Oct 28 19:30:02 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Digital Man to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 03:26 pm

    Most TCP protocols can be operated via Telnet (or rather, a raw TCP connection, e.g. netcat). That doesn't mean you *want* to (e.g. send an email, download a file via http), but it's possible.

    I'm still working on that whole security thing. I'm a bit new to all this, I'm still trying to wean myself off modern windows. I got a ton of old to me boards I wana start with. It's been 7 or so years since I've touched any other OS. Let alone browsed outside of https://

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to anthk on Thu Oct 29 01:44:55 2020
    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: anthk to Digital Man on Tue Oct 27 2020 08:02 pm

    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Digital Man to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 03:26 pm


    There's a gopher client built around netcat, echo and less:

    nago.sh

    https://github.com/hb9kns/nago

    It works well.


    -- Unix junkie --


    Thanks for that link. You are the hero of the week!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dr. What on Tue Oct 27 13:58:00 2020
    Dr. What wrote to Moondog <=-

    Then there's the problem we have today with copyrighted works that are simply no longer published. Before Disney, etc. extended Copyright way past the originally intended 28 years, those works fell into the public domain, making it much easier for people to view them.

    Kill the Mouse.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Arelor on Tue Oct 27 14:01:00 2020
    Arelor wrote to Vlk-451 <=-

    It is not exactly a UNIX-only thing. It is more like an http or ftp predecessor. In fact, it helps to think of it as http without cookies
    and headers and connection multiplexing or anything.

    Reminds me of the old days with FTP indexes and text rendered in the
    browser. Simpler, lightweight times. Lightweight, like running a
    company on a 56k leased line lightweight.

    The real deal with gopher is that the protocol is so simple that you
    can write your own gopher-sites and services with scary ease, and keep
    the whole thing extremely lightweight for both the user and the administrator.

    Too bad someone hasn't created a gopher proxy module for NGINX. I'd
    like to be able to proxy gopher via HTTP locally instead of using one
    of the external gateways.



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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANT to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Oct 29 18:01:02 2020
    Re: Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Tue Oct 27 2020 07:01 am

    Too bad someone hasn't created a gopher proxy module for NGINX. I'd
    like to be able to proxy gopher via HTTP locally instead of using one
    of the external gateways.

    I think pygopherd supports serving both http and gopher from the same directory.

    That said, I think that defeats the purpose.

    My own gophersite is a pseudomirror of my website. It is generated via scripts. The gophersite has more goodies than the website though, like software downloads.

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  • From anthk@VERT to Arelor on Fri Oct 30 00:59:00 2020
    Arelor wrote to anthk <=-

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    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: anthk to Digital Man on Tue Oct 27 2020 08:02 pm

    Re: Text Based Web Browsing
    By: Digital Man to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 03:26 pm


    There's a gopher client built around netcat, echo and less:

    nago.sh

    https://github.com/hb9kns/nago

    It works well.


    -- Unix junkie --


    Thanks for that link. You are the hero of the week!

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