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- > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 23:41:07 PST
- > Sender: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
- > From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
- > To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
- > Subject: WWW program to fetch document source?
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- > Is there a simple WWW tool which will will take a UDI or URL (and
- which
- > is officially used these days by WWW?)
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- URL is the term for something limited to an address. URI
- means a URL OR something which looks like it but is a name
- in an abstract space. The IETF WG talks about URLs only as
- no namespace exists. [[The URI term has had a hard time as
- noone accepts the concept of a (name or address) as some people are
- so hot on defending the essential difference of names and addresses]]
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- > and write the source of the
- > document to stdout? Something like
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- > wwwFetch file://foo.bar.type/blah/blah/oink.ps >/tmp/a
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- > I notice that ``www -n -source'' still does a bit of formatting,
- enough
- > to confuse Postscript and GIF files.
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- Really? A few months ago (Oct 92, version 1.3a I think)
- a shortcut was introduced so that the
- -source option pipes the source direct (CRLF and all) to stdout.
- "Should work"! It was particularly needed (and tested)
- for postscript. Before, the source was treated as a plain text file,
- and wrapped at the line length.
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- > Bill
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- Tim
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