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- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- From: riddle@ruf.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
- Subject: linkmerge: a tool to merge remote Gopher directories
- Message-ID: <C4Guvw.4yx@rice.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 22:38:19 GMT
-
- Problem: I want to offer a "subject tree" of Internet resources
- categorized by subject area but I don't have time to develop my own.
- There are a number of useful efforts to categorize Gopher resources by
- subject area, but none of them has yet emerged as a comprehensive
- standard.
-
- Solution: The perl script below. By merging carefully selected
- subdirectories of other sites' subject area trees, I was able to come
- up with a pretty fair union of several of them. The result is far from
- perfect, but it will do until something better comes along. This
- approach also allows me to put my own local resources into the same
- tree. To see this in action, take a look at:
-
- Name=Information by Subject Area
- Type=1
- Port=70
- Path=1/Subject
- Host=riceinfo.rice.edu
-
- I'm interested in what other people think of this idea.
-
- -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
- -- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems
- -- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327
- -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
-