Barking up the wrong tree
Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:55:04 +0200
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Extracting URL's from text files.

I looked at  extracting url's from gopher text files  by using Lynx
External commands and piping it through Urlscan.

It works, BUT:

1)  I can  only get  the external  command to  work on  remote HTTP
files, or local FILE files.

2) Urlscan completely ignores gopher:// urls (urlview doesn't)

3) It won't open in the same terminal as Lynx

Sigh.

I  get the  feeling that  I'm trying  to solve  something that  was
solved by http long ago.

In Gopher, you write the links at  the bottom of the text file, and
the client either copies it by hand , or selects it with the mouse.

Gopher was originally intended to be a better ftp, not a world wide 
web, which is why link management is  limited  to  gophermap  files.