Where's the library?
                                            Sunday, April 15, 2018

 First day as a gopher (gopherist?). I've just camped and admittedly
 I've only devoted a couple hours to these matters but... I'm a bit
 surprised that, being gopher such an aged technology, actual
 documentation on its basic wiring is so scarce; or at least not
 readily available.

 There's a couple basic guide, good as a starting point I guess, but
 no actual spec that I can see. Something that bothers me is that in
 those I cannot actually tell what is standard and what is a given
 server's extension.

 So, what am I asking about? Well, I mean things like:

  - What is the text encoding supposed to be? Is there any convention
    in absence of an specification?
  - Are lines supposed to be truncated with carriage returns? which
    stile? UNIX? DOS? MAC? At any rate, at which damned column?

 Sure, there must be an RFC specifying the network protocol in
 great detail. I don't expect it to contain answers to any of those
 simple questions. Will read anyways, you never know.

 Of course I might be looking at the wrong places. Or maybe I'm just
 missing on the 'general consensus' among the community.

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UPDATE:
Solderpunk already read a WIP state of this post and answered my
questions. Boy, I'm gona enjoy my stay here!