Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 12:51:26 -0400 From: Spike Gronim <william@brainlink.com> To: .@babolo.ru Cc: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, keith.stevenson@louisville.edu, bicknell@ufp.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010901125126.B85069@spike.gronim.com> In-Reply-To: <200108302011.AAA10805@aaz.links.ru>; from .@babolo.ru on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:11:30AM %2B0400 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010830084803.23544A-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> <200108302011.AAA10805@aaz.links.ru>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:11:30AM +0400, .@babolo.ru wrote: > Laurence Berland writes: > > Optimally, you could write a urlsh or something, and leave everyone else > > alone. The shell could do substitutions on URLs just like they do on > > wildcards etc, and the applications would not need to be rewritten, plus > > you wouldn't add bloat to those of us who don't want this in the system... > It is possible if interfaces of utilities is fully standartized. > For example -p flag in any command means port number. Actually, that's not true. The scp manpage says: -p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. Also, tar has the same flag with the same meaning. > Such as > > mutt -l user -h host.domain > > as legal alternative of > > mutt user@host.domain > [snip] > > -- > @BABOLO http://links.ru/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- --Spike Gronim gronimw@stuy.edu "Oh yes? An obscene triangle which, has more courage than the word." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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