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  • Gophie client software?

    From David L. P. Solimano@david@solimano.org to comp.infosystems.gopher on Thu May 14 19:42:20 2026
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    Hello,

    Was looking around and found Gophie, a Windows/Mac/Unix Gopher client
    written in Java under GPLv3. Just wondering if anyone had experience
    with it; I'll be playing with it a little this week.

    My first impression is, it works just fine but could use a little TLC,
    maybe a bookmarks list.

    Thanks,
    David
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  • From gmc@gmc@metro.cx (Koen Martens) to comp.infosystems.gopher on Fri May 15 06:24:13 2026
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    David L. P. Solimano <david@solimano.org> wrote:
    Was looking around and found Gophie, a Windows/Mac/Unix Gopher client written in Java under GPLv3. Just wondering if anyone had experience
    with it; I'll be playing with it a little this week.

    Can't say I have, I've only used GUI clients lately. But I've been
    meaning to switch to console-based and was actually trying to remember
    what the gopher client was I used 'back in the day' (late 90s). It
    was just called 'gopher' I think.

    I can't find that in my linux system's package manager, but I see
    there's still a package of that name in FreeBSD, so I'm going
    to try that :)

    My first impression is, it works just fine but could use a little TLC,
    maybe a bookmarks list.

    Let us know how you get on! The screenshots on their site look
    good.

    Cheers,

    Koen
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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@not@telling.you.invalid to comp.infosystems.gopher on Fri May 15 17:50:11 2026
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    David L. P. Solimano <david@solimano.org> wrote:
    Was looking around and found Gophie, a Windows/Mac/Unix Gopher client written in Java under GPLv3.

    Another Java gopher client is JGopher.

    https://mckinley.net/jgopher/

    I'm not sure if either works with any of the ancient versions of
    Java I have installed on any of my PCs (not with Java 6, for
    starters).
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