Re: A few questions.....

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:02:37 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 jerome@psti.com wrote:

> the advantage of open("http://www.site.org"); vs open_http("www.site.org");
> is the possiblity of the existing code -without- modification. all
> the current tools would work as is.
>
> example: cat http://www.site.org/index.html | less

This, at least, can be done w/ lynx -source http://...

> it is the aim of the portal filesystem if i remember correctly.

Now the other way to do it would be a filesystem. Perhaps
'/http/www.site.org/index.html'. That seems to make more sense to
me, for at least what you're talking about.

Stephen

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