Re: Last version of the UMN gopherd?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:26:04PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I maintained UMN Gopherd for a spell back in the early 2000s. I
> eventually removed gopherd from the tree (keeping the client) after
> concluding that it was just written in a different era security-wise and
> was going to be really hard to bring up to the modern era regarding
> security.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
-Mike
>
> - John
>
> On Sun, Jul 29 2018, Mike Gran wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Digging around in old FTP sites, the most recent version of the
> > University of Minnesota's gopherd that I could find was gopherd-2.1.3
> > from about 1995. Does anyone know what the last version actually was?
> >
> > I encountered it here: http://ftp.ulb.ac.be/pub/info_unix/gopher/
> >
> > I was able to build and execute it with minimal effort, considering its
> > venerability.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike Gran
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