On Tue, 31 Jan 1995 19:40:36 -0700 Guest Account 4 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hi! Someone had posted the following to this list a month or so ago: > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comments: To: [log in to unmask] > >Cross-post to LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L: > >I've asked my Listserv maintainer to link our Listserv to a gopher. He's >recommended that I ask here how that may be done most simply and >inexpensively and to get the responses back to him. Can anyone recommend >how to proceed to get and set up a gopher to read Listserv filelists and >notebooks? > >Thanks for any help. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Why not ask you Gopher maintainer to link into you Listserv! 1) subscribe a "fake" e-mail address to listserv, such as [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask]) 2) on "some.unix.gopher.server" create an alias such as list.into.gopher:"|/usr/local/bin/some.script.you.write" 3) create /usr/local/bin/some.script.you.write such as #!/bin/sh UNIQUE=`date '+%y%m%d%H%M%S'` nawk '{print}' > /some.dir.of.gopher.data/$UNIQUE.txt SUBJECT=`grep "^Subject:" /some.dir.of.gopher.data/$UNIQUE \ | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2-` echo "Name=$SUBJECT" > /some.dir.of.gopher.data/.cap/$UNIQUE 4) pat yourself on the back, 'cause you're done unless you want to get really fancy... [log in to unmask] (testing ecsmail30b7cwin)