Exploring and pulling texts
Logarion repositories are collections of text files, accompanied by a special index file.
These collections can exist on any server and accessed by any transport protocol.
Kosuzu's client currently supports a plethora of protocols, HTTP, FTP, Gopher to name a few examples .1
A remote repository can be registered and texts copied locally.
To add a new remote run: txt pull <url>
, where <url>
is the address of the remote repository.
The program will connect to the server, copy the index.pck
file and use it to download each text file.
It will not re-download previous texts, unless their Date or Date-Edited dates are newer than the previous ones.
The text files are by default downloaded to $HOME/.local/share/texts/peers/
.
A new directory is created for each peer's unique id and the index & texts are stored in it.
Running txt pull
with no URL, will re-fetch indices from all previously pulled repositories, and new text files will be downloaded automatically.
1: curl:// does not support pulling texts from Gemini servers, due to its dubious status as an standard, and its lack of formalization in IETF, though.