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1 # 2019-07-22 23:03:00.133769 UTC (+0000)
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3 Bitreich now has a gopher validator/lint tool.
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5 It checks raw Gopher directory data according to the official RFC1436
6 specification.
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8 This lint-like tool might also open further discussion for improving Gopher for
9 the current times, clarify interpretations of the official spec or define them
10 more strictly. A few topics could be:
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12 * Change: UTF-8 support (instead of Latin-1).
13 * Change: remove ".\r\n" behaviour for types like textfiles and treat it at the
14 protocol level as binary.
15 * Clarify/define: define a more clear difference of glyphs vs codepoints vs
16 bytes.
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18 The source-code is available at:
19 git://git.codemadness.org/gopher-validator
20 git://bitreich.org/gopher-validator
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22 It can be browsed at:
23 gopher://codemadness.org/1/git/gopher-validator
24 gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/gopher-validator
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26 Suggestions and patches are welcome.
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28 Some of the protocol discussions will be at Bitreichcon 2019.
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30 Kind regards,
31 Hiltjo
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