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Your standard Linux distro probably has the gopher command line client installed. I'm slightly disappointed that its not in OSX.

• pbhjpbhj 17y ago
  It's not on my Kubuntu and I'd be a bit upset if it was - why include it? Especially as the major browsers have gopher support.
  • tvon 17y ago
    Hmm, it's in my Debian but I might have installed it. Though, browser support is no reason not to include a tiny command-line client.
    • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      I may have stripped it out. Given the ease with which a client can be installed ("sudo apt-get install ...") then why waste the space. Sure it's small but the principle stands, and many small programs add to lots of space - also that small program is going to be downloaded millions of times unnecessarily, written to CD/DVD, written to HDD or flash drives .. countless transfers and writes, even for a few KB that's a waste.
      • tvon 17y ago
        So you'd advocate the removal of ftp because Firefox and Konqueror support it?
        • pbhjpbhj 17y ago
          I'm sure the popularity-contest data shows that FTP is used quite a lot. Gopher barely ever. So, "no" unless there were a "command line tools" checkbox on install that could be used to exclude it. I've never actually used the FF ftp (until you mentioned it) and didn't even know it was there - I only occasionally use ftp in a console, usually I'll use Dolphin or Krusader (KDE4).