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Date:      Mon, 08 Jul 1996 16:40:56 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CD distribution layout vs FTP distribution layout. 
Message-ID:  <22714.836869256@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:38:22 CDT." <199607082338.SAA23417@brasil.moneng.mei.com> 

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> I assume something parses up the URL format.  I would think it would be
> possible to attempt intelligent chdir's to try to figure out what was
> meant...  or, perhaps simpler yet, in the case where a first access attempt
> failed, perhaps a "cd /" could be done and the attempt retried..
> 
> How hard would it be to add a minimal amount of intelligence to the
> procedure?

Not too hard, but certainly harder than simply telling people to type
two leading slashes.. :-)

						Jordan



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