Writing mapfiles is a little tricker than you might think.
Here are a few things to be aware of:
* Some clients get confused about empty lines. If you want
  an empty line, make it a blank "i" line.
* On that topic, some clients are picky about "i" lines,
  make sure that you have *3* tabs at the end so that
  all the "fields" are correctly there.
* On that topic even more: some clients ignore "i" lines
  completely, don't make your content dependent on it.
  Especially try to make sure that there's at least one
  link per screenful of text because this breaks some 
  weird gopher clients.
* There's no spacing at all between the type and the
  pretty name. The correct way to start a textfile
  is just "0this is my name"
* Make sure your editor isn't expanding tabs. You need
  real tabs. As in ^I.

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