Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 17:09:43 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? Message-ID: <199501272309.RAA22033@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199501271800.KAA23617@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 27, 95 10:00:56 am
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> My question is, how hard would it be to make them MORE than informational? > e.g. the system sees one of these URL specs as a filename and auto-fetches > it for you. Yow. Now *that* would be way cool. What would you do, have a mechanism to register a program to be passed the URL if you open a symlink that matches URL format? (ooh, then you could do ln -s http://localhost/cgi-bin/executable?symlink+target file though it'd be more fun to do ln -s sh:/usr/local/bin/... file ) > I guess this all gets back to the whole `user mode translation of file names' > thing we were talking about awhile back. It's not the same as portals, > which require a given mount point to be traversed, but rather affects all > files who's names match some sort of selection criteria. The feature above > would be one very nice application for this. I'd make it only in symlinks, and make the symlink match something more than just a URL... (@proto://...?).
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