Its a beginning

I decided I should use git while working on this. If it works well huzzah, if not whatever nothing lost.  
Created header generator  gopHeader and a link printer too. I always forget to hit control v and then tab when making my gopher map

automap.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/usr/pkg/bin/bash
+
+#DOC MAINDIR specifies where the script begins to build gophermaps from.
+#DOC HEADER is printed at the top of each gophermap
+#DOC FOOTER is printed at the end of each gophermap
+
+MAINDIR="$HOME/gopher"
+
+HEADER="Welcome to my gopherspace                   
+     ____  ____  _ _ _ 
+     |    \|  _ \| | | |
+     | | | | | | | | | |
+     |_|_|_|_| |_|\____/ 
+"
+
+FOOTER="
+
+   Thanks for using 
+                           
+       _   _  ._  |_   _  ._ 
+      (_| (_) |_) | | (/_ |  
+      _|      |              
+"
+
+
+#DOC Gopher File Codes
+#DOy 0 text file
+#DOC r directory
+#DOC 3 error message
+#DOC 5 archive file (zip, tar etc)
+#DOC 7 search query
+#DOC 8 telnet session
+#DOC 9 binary file
+#DOC g GIF image
+#DOC h HTML file
+#DOC i info text
+#DOC I generic image file (other than GIF)
+#DOC d document file (ps, pdf, doc etc)
+#DOC s sound file
+#DOC ; video file
+#DOC c calendar file
+#DOC M MIME file (mbox, emails etc)
+
+#DOC function gophref - 3 Args filetype, selector, name                                                 
+#DOC          The filetypes are well defined at this URL
+#DOC          https://github.com/michael-lazar/hn-gopher/blob/master/hn-gopher/opt/gophernicus_2.4/READM
+#DOC
+function gophref(){
+  if [ -z "$1" ] && [ -z "$2" ];then
+      exit -100
+  elif [ -z "$2" ];then
+      echo "$1$2  $2";
+  else
+      echo "$1$3  $2";
+  fi  
+} 
+
+function gopHeader(){
+    if [ -z "$2" ];then
+      headerWidth=40
+    else
+      headerWidth=$2
+    fi
+    lineSegment=""
+    for ((i=1;i<$headerWidth; i++))
+    do
+      lineSegment="-$lineSegment"
+    done
+
+    echo "$lineSegment"
+    printf "%*s" $(((${#1}+$headerWidth)/2)) "$1"
+    printf '\n'
+    echo "$lineSegment"
+}
+
+echo "$HEADER"
+gopHeader "PHLOG Posts"
+gophref 0 TextFile "Big Times"
+gopHeader "Looking for more? Check these out."
+gophref 1 2021-04-16 "More Offgrid Fun"
+gophref 0 OldStuff "Older Stuff"
+echo "$FOOTER"