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- gee - gopher environment editor (Beta Test Version)
- copyright (c) Bill Middleton, 1993 - all rights reserved
- wjm@feenix.metronet.com
- Absolutely No Warranty expressed or implied. Use with care.
- Send comments, suggestions, and fixes to me please.
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- What is gee?
- Gee is a tool for gopher admins to allow quick and easy inspection of, and
- changes to, the gopher archive. It uses a paged display, like the gopher client
- itself, and displays files one directory at a time. Gee is compatible
- mostly with older gopher servers, but works ok (i hope) with the
- gopher+ server's .name files. Doesn't work with gn, but it could.
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- Where is gee?
- Gee is available here on feenix in the perl scripts archive for gopher
- retrievals. One can also use the gopher mailserver to obtain it, by sending
- mail to perl-info@feenix.metronet.com with the one-line body: (no subject)
-
- send /scripts/gopher/tools/gee/gee.shar
-
- Please remember this is a Beta Test Version for free distribution. It
- needs commentary, and improvements. The rest is up to you.
-
- How does it work?
- You should probably be uid (your gopher id) to use it, as that'll make
- the error checking work a little better, but as long has write perms on
- the files and directories in the archive that one attempts to change/add to,
- it should be ok.
-
- When it starts, gee ordinarily just cd's to to the toplevel gopher archive
- directory and produces a gopher-like listing of all files/dirs therein. This
- listing is of the form:
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Num Name Type Path Host Port Numb Status
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- [items]
- .
- .
- [last item]
- cwd: /toplevel/current/dir h for help >
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- With the fields defined like this:
-
- Num - selection number
- Name - filename (default), or .cap name or .link/.name Name, if it exists
- Type - Text, Not Text, Dir, or .cap/.link/.name Type, if it exists
- Path - path, or local filename if Path matches in in .cap/.link/.name
- Host - localhost or .cap/.link/.name Host, if it exists
- Port - port (default 70) or .cap/.link/.name Port, if it exists
- Numb - not listed unless it exists in .cap/.link/.name
- Status - results from rudimentary error checks on the items
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-
- There's an option to use a list of all directories in the archive,
- to allow startup in any directory. This list also makes moving files
- from one location to any other in the archive very easy, more about it
- later. Once the screen is displayed, there are a several options you
- can take by entering a single character or a number, followed by a <CR>.
- They are:
-
- number - view stat and .cap/.link/.name info for file.
- This option displays a window with the stat info from the
- file/dir/symlink, including whether it is world readable,
- owner and group, and an error condition if not readable
- by euid. Or when dir is not scannabale by euid.
-
- c - change to a subdirectory or .. , or any directory
- Change to the directory below this one, or any subdirectory.
- Or change to any other directory, by using the (optional)
- directory listing.
-
- f,b,q - forward screen, back screen, or quit
-
- !command - execute command in current directory
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-
-
- After choosing an item to view the stat/display info for, there
- are more options for action on the item itself. They are as follows:
-
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- e - change/create displayed info for any item via .cap/file or .link/.name
- Overwrite the current .cap file, or edit the current .cap
- file or .link/.name file pertaining to the file. Or, create
- displayed info for any item via .cap/file or .link or .name
- You can even convert .cap files to .name entries.
-
- v - view/edit item with pager/editor
- The configurable pager, overridden by $ENV{'PAGER'} is used
- to view a file. This option is given when viewing displayed
- info for the file/dir, as well as when changing/creating
- displayed info for it.
-
- m - mv item to any dir in the archive (optional dir list to spec path)
- mv a file or dir (same fs) to a new directory. Specify
- path, or use the optional directory listing.
-
- d - rm any file in the current directory
- Deletes the selected file. Use with caution.
-
- Anytime a change is made to the displayed information for a file,
- an attemt is made to remove the .cache file in the current directory.
- A new one is not created yet, but will be in a future release. Once
- it's decided exactly how it should be done... :)
-
-
- What is the optional directory listing?
- The directory listing of the archive is created by using another
- included program, called getdirs. It starts a find in the configured
- toplevel, and creates a text file with the directory paths
- from the toplevel. The program is configurable to exclude certain
- directories, like .cap and .index.
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-
- What to do now?
- Assuming you have obtained both the programs and this README,
- you'll also need my simple ansi screen window library, win.pl.
- It is also available here on feenix, under the perl archive. Then its
- easy. Just configure the scripts, gee and getdirs, by editing the
- configure sections, then start saving time and effort. And dont
- forget to send me comments, bugs, and fixes.
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- Bill
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