As previously discussed, a gophermap is a text file. It does however require specific formatting.

When adding links to a document, you need to ensure the space between the label and filename is a tab and not spaces. I previously discussed HOW TO set up an editor to treat pressing tab as an actual tab character.

If things are not working properly, there are several things you can try in the first instance.

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• You can delete the area what is between the label Particle Interactions and filename particle_chart.jpg and reinsert a tab
• Delete everything after the label, (well use cut) then paste it back in, then insert a tab

This sometimes fixes any issues, it may seem strange in the gophermap that some tabs appear small and others appear longer (as if they are equivalent of 4 spaces) this seems normal.

If you want to make sure of what is there, you can use a hex editor to examine deeper in to a file.

What you are looking for are the following

Within ASCII :

• Tab is 09 decimal, Hex 09
• Space is 32 decimal, Hex 20 (Two Zero)

Find where tabs are inserted, and check the hex is displaying 09, It may look by the text field on the right that some characters appear as periods, this is I think due to the fact that the editor needs to have something to represent what is there. If that makes sense.

gopher gopher://vern.cc/1/~zleap

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