[gopher] width of a gophersite

[Kim Holviala]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, 01:05:52 EEST, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikizine.org> wrote:

> By default the width of a gophersite is 70 symbols. I suspect that
> comes from the early monitors.

The early terminals were 80 wide, and the first gopher clients used six or so chars for item types leaving about 74 for the content. And even today Lynx on a 80 wide terminal does the same.

> But, besides tradition, is there any reason why you should not increase
> that?

No, not really. 100 wide should work just fine these days...

- Kim