Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:43:43 +0000 From: Kevin Way <kevin.way@overtone.org> To: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@NewGold.NET> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010904214343.B77906@bean.overtone.org> In-Reply-To: <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET>; from jmallett@NewGold.NET on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:15:34PM %2B0000 References: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> <E15eICB-0007ny-00@twwells.com> <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET>
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> If you're really lazy and want to be able to do: > telnet smtp://localhost > I suggest you look into this relatively new invention called > '/etc/services' and read some manual pages. You'll find you can do > something quite similar, and much saner. I'm quite sure that Mr. Sinz wasn't suggesting that telnet smtp://localhost should do something useful. Nor do I consider his idea "lazy". I do think that he was suggesting, and I concur, that there's no logical reason that networked file access should be treated differently by user applications than local file access. I strongly suggest you read his post again, and think about how nice it is for a moment that you can mount CODA, 9660, NFS, FFS, UFS, FAT, NTFS, SMBFS, etc and have user-level programs access their data in exactly the same manner. This is not an LSD-induced 'turn freebsd into windows' idea, it's a very simple extension of ideas that FreeBSD already has in place. Kevin Way To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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