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- Throughout the years people have used different ways to
- describe files available for anonymous ftp. that has never
- been standardized ever. no reason to believe it ever will
- be.
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- If we are going to come up with a special kind of document
- that refers to a new document type that has the semantics
- of "pointer to file available for anonymous ftp", then it
- should be assigned a WAIS type tag, described, and specified.
- I'd suggest the tag AFTP. Someone write a spec, we'll all
- write code, & be done with it. (There's plenty of data after
- all.) It would be better to do that rather than to use a TEXT
- type tag and bicker about the format.
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- I don't think it would be hard for the WWW gateway to WAIS to
- do special things to documents if they had a different type,
- and then use that to convert AFTP type documents to WWW format.
- Ditto gopher, archie, etc. clients.
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- If it's TEXT, on the other hand, it can be *anything*. Please
- don't overload the semantics of the name of the server or the
- accidental formatting of the contents of the document. I would
- like to create AFTP records to stick into many servers.
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- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
- MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120
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