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       # 2025-10-17 - CSV Viewer With Awk And Gopher
       
       I scattered CSV files throughout my gopherhole.  It recently occurred
       to me to make them more viewable within gopher clients.  My basic
       strategy is to use `uncsv` to convert to TSV format, and then use an
       AWK script to flatten the data for viewing in gopher clients.  This
       follows conventions of keeping the intelligence server side rather
       than leaning on client-side scripting.
       
       > Intelligence is held by the server. ... Further intelligence to be
       > borne by the protocol should be minimized.
       >
       > From: RFC 1436
       
  HTML uncsv
       
  TEXT RFC 1436
       
       Recently i wrote a similar AWK script to flatten tabular data.
       
   DIR Awesome Curated List of Mind Expanding Books
       
       For this post, i adapted this script to work with any CSV file.
       See items below for code.
       
  TEXT csv2gph.sh
       
  TEXT csv2gph.awk
       
       I use it like so:
       
           bin/csv2gph.sh public_gopher/books/serial-reading.csv \
               public_gopher/books/serial-reading/index.gph
       
       You can view the resulting gophermaps below.
       
   DIR free-ebooks.csv
       
   DIR serial-reading.csv
       
   DIR to-read.csv
       
       The gophermaps link to the original CSV files, to make it easy to
       access the data outside of the gopher client.
       
       tags: book,technical
       
       # Tags
       
   DIR book
   DIR technical