The original script showed how long ago a entry was posted. Lace now shows how long ago a post occurred and the date and time of the post.
+### Directions
+
+There are three bash scripts that make up the lace family, lace, laced, and lacedreader.
+
+lace is a standalone program.
+
+To use lace put it in your path and make it executable
+
+lace will read subscriptions
+
+lace nope will read subscriptions without less
+
+lace subs will list subscriptions\n"
+
+lace sub nickname url will - add subscription, e.g.:lace sub Drew gemini://friendo.monster/tiny.gmi
+
+lace unsub nickname will remove subscription, e.g.:lace unsub Drew
+
+lace update will redownload script to location of current script (might need sudo, depending on location)
+
+---------------------------------------------
+laced and lacereader are programs designed to be used together.
+
+To use laced and lacereader put both programs in your path and make them executable
+
+laced is designed to be executed as a cron job. Rather than running lace and waiting for all the micro blogs to be downloaded and sorted your can run laced as a cron job. laced will store the downloaded and sorted microblogs in a file. lacedreader is designed to read the file and present the file to you in less.
+
+laced has the option of "laced strict" lace and lacedadds color codes that less uses to present colors to the user. lace and laced are programs that are meant to be hacked on to meet your needs. I added the strict option to not add the color codes which an not Gemini compliant. This way if you want to configure your Gemini browser to open the file, the file will appear as valid Gemini.
+
+For lace to read microblogs they should be in the following format. You do not need to use UTC but you should list the three character time zone code.
+
+# Fr. Robert's Microblog
+
+## Tue 18 May 2021 19:31 UTC
+I have joined the Fediverse my instance is at https://social.frrobert.com/channel/frrobert
+
+## Tue 18 May 2021 19:29 UTC
+@Toby there is there is an additional program call khard that is a contact list that works with pim utils. It was developed by someone else but it works fine with vdirsyncer. I have been using all the programs for several years and I second your endorsement of them.
+
+## Mon 17 May 2021 19:32 UTC
+=>gemini://frrobert.net/log/trendythoughts-2021-05-16-1607.gmi This week's Trendy Thoughts are out
+
+----------------
+
+How lace results appear.
+
+8 hours ago
+Tue 18 May 2021 04:22:00 PM EDT
+🚀 hexdsl (hexdsl.co.uk)
+I like cheese, like, more than most
+
+18 hours ago
+Tue 18 May 2021 03:31:00 PM EDT
+☦ frrobert (frrobert.net)
+I have joined the Fediverse my instance is at https://social.frrobert.com/channel/frrobert
+
+19 hours ago
+Tue 18 May 2021 03:29:00 PM EDT
+☦ frrobert (frrobert.net)
+@Toby there is there is an additional program call khard that is a contact list that works with pim utils. It was developed by someone else but it works fine with vdirsyncer. I have been using all the programs for several years and I second your endorsement of them.
+
+25 hours ago
+Tue 18 May 2021 09:12:18 AM EDT
+🐘 Adele (adele.work)
+Hey, I test my online tinylog editor ! It works with a simple gemini browser !
+
+
### Favicons
Lace may show the actual code for a favicon rather than the icon itself depending on the version of GNU less and/or fonts installed. If this happens you can either install a font that supports the favicon or comment out the following line in the script.
### Updates
+2012-05-?? I added the strict option to laced. If you use laced strict the file that is created is a true gemini formatted file without the color codes used by the lacedreader.
+
2021-05-03 I added laced and lacedreader. laced will download microblogs but will not open them for reading. It is designed to be used with crontab. lacedreader is the reader to be used with the laced.
2021-04-28 I added the logic that if the server times out on the first connect to skip the second connect.
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