Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Sat, 02 Mar 2002 20:42:24 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: <tjat2@pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk> Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk (pinkstuff.publication.org.uk [212.135.138.249]) by pi.glockenspiel.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4557E3B8DF for <gopher@complete.org>; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 20:42:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from tjat2 (helo=localhost) by pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16hL14-0006bG-00 for <gopher@complete.org>; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:42:22 +0000 Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 01:42:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Thomas Thurman <tjat2@thurman.org.uk> X-Sender: tjat2@pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopher info at top of menu In-Reply-To: <3C817D4E.7060005@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203030134070.28984-100000@pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: abuse@pinkstuff.transformers.org.uk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 484 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: tjat2@thurman.org.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Aaron Angel wrote: > How can you put a `header' at the top of a menu like many sites do?

I'm not sure which sites you mean (can you give us an example?) but I generally do this with the "i" gophertype. So, for example, the front page of gopher.publication.org.uk looks something like this:

iWelcome to gopher.publication.org.uk error.host 1 iOwned and operated by Pinkstuff People error.host 1

etc.

In UMN gopherd, you can do this with Type=i in your .links file, but it's fiddly. I believe someone's written a tool to create "i" lines in .links files automatically, though. Bucktooth's system of gophermap files is much easier, IMO, and lets you enter the text freeform as long as it's not ambiguous.

hth,

T