Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion

Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>

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Chuck said:

/ Seems to me people are addressing the wrong end of the pipe with regard to
/ gopher support. XMosaic shouldn't have to do anything in particular with
/ gopher info. Shouldn't it really be up to the HTTP server (or gateway) to
/ present gopher information in a more palatable form? It's a very minor
/ change to NCSA's HTTP server to get it to put out nice looking gopher
/ listings with in-lined images, etc. for example.

Woah!  What happened to my bandwidth ?!? :-) 

Martin.