from: mw3
date: 29 september 2024
scene: blue couch, kitchen table, quiet time after lunch
medium: thinkpad x201, tandy wp-2
title: gophermap dimension fortress

trying to figure out gopher and gophermaps. i made a test
gophermap. gopher is full of ambiguity.

questions:
 - is display of blank lines (blank line outputs blank line) an official
   part of the format?
 - is display of lines that begin with whitespace part of the spec? lynx
   and umn gopher do it. but they display i selectors too, and that is
   not part of the standard for sure.
 - is it better to use i selectors or just text?
 - is a text line just a line without tabs? or a line with leading
   whitespace?
 - does a selector begin with '/' ?
 - do all gopher servers use the '/0/...' '/1/...' style of selectors?

i suppose i will find answers eventually. but since i am working on
something i intend to use to publish writing, it occurred to me to write
the questions out. the questions themselves are interesting. if i learn
the answers, i may write them up, and that would be useful, in addition
to interesting. time will tell.

it is all part of the fun ;)