From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Sun Aug 10 01:08:13 2008 Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions Cameron, Since you have access to an Alpha Server, can you please test (and write a review for) the GSAPLHA Gopher Server? Filename = GSALPHA.ZIP Path = gopher://home.jumpjet.info/11\Begin_Here\Servers\Windows_NT\GopherS --- On Mon, 8/4/08, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wrote: From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions To: gopher@complete.org Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:37 AM > > > Exactly - you can't rely on '/' being the separator, or that the last > > > section cut off yields the valid parent dir, or even that there are > > > directories. > > And here goes an example against the method I suggested. > > An url pointing at a jumpjet resource: > Backslashes are a native feature of all DOS and Windows based Gopher > Servers. Exactly. What Nuno was getting at is that the path separator will vary from system to system -- off the top of my head, I can think of \ (FAT), /, : (Mac HFS), etc. And then there's VMS, and ... I even have an old Alpha Micro server here and it doesn't *have* a concept of paths at all, just ersatzes, disks and PPNs. AFAIC, trying to parse the selector for parent menus is just going to be a big kludge and won't work all the time or everywhere. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com -- With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- Douglas Adams, "HGTTG" ----------- Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions