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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:48:44AM -0500, Aaron J. Angel wrote:

> Yes, that's correct; if you use gophermap in directories, you have to > add everything you want to be seen on the menu. An alternative, if you > just want a description for files, is to use metafiles (by creating a > file with the same name and appending .abstract) to hold the > descriptions. This will still show anything that doesn't have an

Just a quick addendum -- Aaron's comments are assuming you are running pygopherd. Also, if you do use these options, you will need to make sure UMN.UMNDirHandler is enabled (it is by default) in your pygopherd.conf.

Regular UMN gopherd does not support adding .abstract files to the menu in this way, and in fact, the process of describing menu entries in the way Aaron mentioned for PyGopherd will be very difficult with UMN gopherd.

It is true that gophermap is an all-or-nothing approach, and that if you have a gophermap for a given directory, you will not be able to use these techniques. See the gophermap.BuckGophermapHandler option in pygopherd.conf.

-- John

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