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- From: eanders+@CMU.EDU (Eric A. Anderson)
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- Subject: Re: Is there an FTP filesystem?
- Message-ID: <4fATAzG00VQwM2smAY@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 05:50:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.4fATAzG00VQwM2smAY
- References: <1992Dec18.030547.29074@cs.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- 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 .
- That should be cp /alex/net/uu/ftp/file .
- > Is there such a program? If so, please tell me what it is and where
- > to find it.
- Yes, ftp to alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu and get pub/alex.tar.Z
- A pretty nifty program.
- -Eric
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