Bucktooth is one of the modern servers for Internet Gopher written by Cameron Kaiser. Instead of using the .link and .cap files found in the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

 gopherd, bucktooth uses the gophermap

Gophermap

A gophermap file is a means of defining menus for gopher content. The gophermap provides a virtual view of the content available allowing one to rename files, hide them, or even link to content on other servers. The gophermap is supported by both Bucktooth and PyGopherd. These servers must...

 format.

Bucktooth is written in Perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

 and is started from inetd

Inetd

inetd is a super-server daemon on many Unix systems that manages Internet services. First appearing in 4.3BSD , it is generally located at /usr/sbin/inetd.-Function:...

 or xinetd

Xinetd

In computer networking, xinetd, the eXtended InterNET Daemon, is an open-source super-server daemon which runs on many Unix-like systems and manages Internet-based connectivity...

.

Proxy support

Bucktooth can be called from a script as a proxy. This allows things like the gopher.floodgap.com HTTP to Gopher gateway to call its bucktooth server without opening a network connection. [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/buck/dbrowse?faquse%207]

External links

• [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck bucktooth development site]