Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:27:00 +0200 From: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <15246.23364.719158.606166@raw.grenland.fast.no> In-Reply-To: <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830161505.A11705@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>
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Ceri writes: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell said: > > > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that > > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with > > the following two sorts of command lines: > > > > mutt mailto:bicknell@ufp.org > > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/ > > Please don't do this. > FreeBSD is not a web browser. That's a pretty silly argument. There are already several commands that are part of FreeBSD, and use either URI syntax or something similar. E.g, mount some.server:/usr/src /usr/src scp user@some.server:file . fetch http://some.server/file Having a standard library that can pick apart such addresses is going to make parsing easier, and it may also make the system slightly easier to use (by enforcing a single syntax across all the commands that require this sort of functionality). Whether it is a reasonable use of developer time is a completely different matter. FWIW, the Symbolics Lisp Machines had something similar to this integrated at the file system layer - it was possible to access (edit, even) files through FTP, NFS, ChaosNet (and other) protocols without explicitly mounting file systems. //Raymond. -- Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker@fast.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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