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    From Ben Collver@bencollver@tilde.pink to tilde.gopher on Fri Nov 11 17:35:25 2022
    gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.gopher on Fri Nov 11 22:55:32 2022
    Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/

    Neat. One thing to note though is that the original UMN Gopher
    client (the "gopher" command) can't scroll around long gophermaps,
    so with the length of many Dict results you only see the last
    terminal-full of text. It would be better to use an "item type 0"
    for the result.
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  • From Ben Collver@bencollver@tilde.pink to tilde.gopher on Sat Nov 12 17:54:03 2022
    On 2022-11-11, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/

    Neat. One thing to note though is that the original UMN Gopher
    client (the "gopher" command) can't scroll around long gophermaps,
    so with the length of many Dict results you only see the last
    terminal-full of text. It would be better to use an "item type 0"
    for the result.

    Thanks for this feedback.

    What i learned is that not all clients can treat the results of
    "item type 7" search selectors as a text document. Lynx can, but
    gopherus expects a gophermap. As a compromise, i put a link at the
    bottom labeled "View text-only definition".
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.gopher on Sat Nov 12 21:03:28 2022
    Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    On 2022-11-11, The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
    gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict/

    Neat. One thing to note though is that the original UMN Gopher
    client (the "gopher" command) can't scroll around long gophermaps,
    so with the length of many Dict results you only see the last
    terminal-full of text. It would be better to use an "item type 0"
    for the result.

    Thanks for this feedback.

    What i learned is that not all clients can treat the results of
    "item type 7" search selectors as a text document. Lynx can, but
    gopherus expects a gophermap. As a compromise, i put a link at the
    bottom labeled "View text-only definition".

    That works. Yes I forgot about the separate search type. I
    encountered the same thing with my currency converter, though it
    never returns much text anyway so it doesn't really matter there
    unless someone's using a really tiny terminal.
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    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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