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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Is there an FTP filesystem?
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:15:10 GMT
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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 .
- |to obtain a file instead of using the FTP command.
-
- |Is there such a program? If so, please tell me what it is and where
- |to find it.
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- Sure: use archie to look up ``prospero''. By the way, archie clients
- use prospero code and protocols.
-
- --dave
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