# RPoD Rewrite Complete

*Entered: in CardText on AlphaSmart Dana* |
*Date: 20200117*

I was able to trim back around 7.5gb or so of files from RPoD. I said
goodbye to the TextFiles mirror, the Asatru Trove, the RFC mirror,
and some redundancy in the Palm OS Software hoard. I also decided
to streamline the main gophermap and link to sections instead of
including them on the main start file.

I did all this after I had written a new gopherd named [Xylophar][1].
Xylophar is named after an double album I released in 2015 for my
project Natanas. The gopherd is written in FreeBasic - a language
that at least two other gopherds have been written in including the
classic Grumpy http/ gopherd. Xylophar is small and does not do a
lot of extra stuff, and this is okay because I run it in a chroot
on RPoD. So even if it gets compromised it isn't going to breach my
network (not that I really am thinking that'd happen anyway, all
of us get hit *constantly* by the Chinese and other actors and my
network hasn't become botnet yet).

Since there is now more room on the main menu for RPoD, I have given
myself permission to add sections in the future if something should
get my attention. Maybe a Gentoo section? A philosophy /occult
section? A music section?

Some of the features of Xylophar:

1) files ending in .cgi are handed to the shell to execute. Type 7
parameters (in URL following a ?, and handed to the server from the
client following a tab) are handled.

2) files ending in .map are treated as gophermaps (type 1) in
automatically generated directory listings. Oh yeah - Xylophar
will generate a directory listing if there is no gophermap or
gophermap.cgi file in the directory.

3) the code is small and similar to suckless programs, customization
takes place in the code.

4) it is licensed with the BSD license so you are free to do with it
whatever you'd like.

5) it is easy to setup and use - the makefile will do everything you
need it to, all you need to do additionally is restart xinetd (since
I do not use systemd on my laptop, I didn't want to hard code that
portion).

6) running a gopher server has been scientifically proven to increase
your sex appeal and popularity with your peers.

Anyways, that is what I've been up to in the past couple of days.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/leveck/xylophar