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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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 rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii,alt.ascii-art.animation,comp.infosystems.gopher,alt.gopher,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Talk: How do I Gopher serve my FTP folder?
Date: 15 Oct 1994 12:27:09 -0500
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boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:


 >   As some of you may know, I maintain the Scarecrow's FTP site here at 
 >ftp.wwa.com.  The folks here at WWA have set up a Gopher server for me, but 
 >are tremendously busy and do not have time to configure it for me.

 >   I cannot complain, the WWA folks, Greg Gulik and Dave Vrona have 
 >already spent time and money providing resources for the newsgroup 
 >rec.arts.ascii, my FTP site, my Web pages, and now they've added the 
 >Gopher server.

 >   Can somebody help me to configure the Gopher server to use the files in 
 >my FTP folder?  I would be very grateful.  Thanks.

 >--
 >Email and requests: boba@wwa.com
 >Home Page: http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba
 >Finger ASCII ART FAQ: asciifaq@wwa.com
 >ASCII ART FTP: ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow

The easiest way is to configure the server at compile time to use the same
gopherdir as the ftp server uses.  You can put .Names files in each subdir
for all the grungy ftp file names to turn them into cool long names.

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