text lines beginning with periods

[ksherlock]

The gopherpedia file for B-tree (gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/B-tree) contains the following text:

                   Best case and worst case heights                   
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 [snipped]

and  give a slightly different expression for the worst case height
(perhaps because the root node is considered to have height 0).
: h \le \left\lfloor \log_{d}\left(\frac{n+1}{2}\right) \right\rfloor
.

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The blank-line period terminates my preferred gopher client early.

RFC 1436 states:

Note: Lines beginning with periods must be prepended with an extra period to ensure that the transmission is not terminated early. The client should strip extra periods at the beginning of the line.

[Spaceghost]

Is that something that the gopher server needs to handle, or the document owner/author?

[muffinista]

I think that's debatable depending on the context, but I'm probably going to fix this. Thanks for pointing it out.