From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 31 11:15:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx.wgate.com (mail.wgate.com [38.219.83.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA5837B401 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:15:47 -0700 (PDT) To: Steve Roome Cc: Keith Stevenson , Leo Bicknell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: From MAIL.WGATE.COM (10.1.1.4[10.1.1.4 port:1833]) by mx.wgate.comMail essentials (server 2.429) with SMTP id: <2489@mx.wgate.com>transfer for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 2:11:48 PM -0400 ;transfer smtpmailfrom X-MESINK_Inbound: 0 X-MESINK_MailForType: SMTP X-MESINK_SenderType: SMTP X-MESINK_Sender: msinz@wgate.com X-MESINK_MailFor: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from sinz.eng.tvol.net ([10.32.2.99]) by mail.wgate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13)id R8Z2NQF4; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:14:21 -0400 Received: from wgate.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])by sinz.eng.tvol.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7VIF9L30971;Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT)(envelope-from msinz@wgate.com) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:15:09 -0400 From: Michael Sinz Organization: WorldGate Communications Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830111708.A20961@osaka.louisville.edu> <20010830232109.A1077@dylan.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-receiver: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG x-sender: msinz@wgate.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <00000e180511ee07d1@[192.168.1.4]> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Roome wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:17:08AM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote: > > Ick. If I wanted this kind of integration I would run Windows, KDE, or GNOME > > instead of my nice, stable, predictable, lightweight desktop environment. > > This entire email is very IMHO > > Why? a URI is by name a "Uniform Resource Locator", the standard idea > being that anything can be referenced by using a uniform system. > > I mean other than the fact that it might look ugly, or not seem like a > good idea, it's become a fairly standard way of addressing things. > > Anyway, how else would you wish to describe something that can quite > legibly define a particular protocol to use on a particular port of a > machine and furthermore can give extra information. I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work this way. I really wish you could just do: open("nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt") and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace the above with ftp: or http: or whatever other protocol would provide read and/or write access.) Anyway, I don't see it happening quickly but I don't see it as a bad thing and I would guess that it will eventually get to that point. (The network includes your local machine so why not) -- Michael Sinz ---- Worldgate Communications ---- msinz@wgate.com A master's secrets are only as good as the master's ability to explain them to others. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message