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- I'm slowly but surely converting the files on ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/emv
- to be in the WWW format. Right now the stuff in news-archives.README is
- referred to that way, and some of the rest of the things in news-archives too.
-
- I'm going out on a limb a tiny bit and writing references to things that
- none of the clients know how to deal with yet, in the expectation that
- useful data will inspire code. In particular, I have some references
- that look like
-
- <a name=1 href=aftp://anonymous@ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/emv/news-archives.README>
- </a>
-
- This aftp: tag is new. I'm not completely happy with the use of the
- file: tag to refer to remote files, since it can lead to situations
- where references are ambiguous depending on whether you're dealing with
- a file on the local system or that same file accessed via anonymous FTP
- on the local system. Adding an aftp: tag should help that. The format
- //user@host:/filename/ is quite similar to that used by ange-ftp, so
- these references are immediately quite usable by existing code.
- There's also the hope that if the aftp: thing gets to be popular it'll
- be easier to pick out references to files from usenet postings, distinguishing
- them from references to ftp (the protocol or the program).
-
- It's useful (even necessary) to include the anonymous@ bit; there are some
- sites (lib.stat.cmu.edu and research.att.com) with two parallel
- "anonymous FTP" trees that have different user names to get to them;
- a reference to
- <a href=aftp://netlib@research.att.com:/> </a>
- is quite different than
- <a href=aftp://anonymous@research.att.com:/> </a>
-
- comments etc welcomed.
-
- at some point this archive is going to migrate back to ftp.msen.com,
- but I'm waiting there on getting equipment a little more suitable to
- the task.
-
- Tim, feel free to glue these into the web as best you see fit; I have
- to go back and stick in all of the WAIS newsgroup mappings that
- I collected before.
- I'm also using
- <a href=wais://wais.domain.org:210/database?>
- in anticipation of that tag being supported, it should be a matter of
- a simple sed or perl script to convert those tags to their current
- preferred format.
-
- --Ed
-
-