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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Is there an FTP filesystem?
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1992Dec18.030547.29074@cs.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:51:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.030547.29074@cs.wisc.edu> dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson) writes:
- >Imagine a program (NFS-style client or otherwise) that can make FTP
- >sites visible in the file system. With such a program running, you
- >could do things like
- >
- > cp /ftpfs/ftp.uu.net/file .
-
- Vincent Cate at CMU is developing just such a program. It is implemented
- as an NFS <-> FTP protocol gateway, with caching.
-
- Try:
-
- mkdir /alex
- mount -o timeo=10,retry=1000,rsize=8192,soft,intr \
- orixa.mtholyoke.edu:/ /alex
-
- cp /alex/net/uu/ftp/info/README .
-
- Or, more relevantly:
-
- more /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc/README
- ghostview /alex/edu/cmu/cs/sp/alex/doc/intro.ps
-
- Please use orixa.mtholyoke.edu only as a demo... my poor workstation is
- doing too much as it is.
-
- Note: you are strongly advised to continue using archie to find files
- on the Net rather than "find /alex -name 'file' -print"..!!!! (half a
- smiley here...)
-
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