Re: A few questions...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:35:39 +0100 (BST)


> internet-integration. Create a "filesystem" which performs anonymous
> (or not; don't know much about filesystems yet) FTP, HTTP fetches,
> etc. Imagine getting news by simply cat'ing /net/http/www.cnn.com.

There is actually a thing called Alexserver (basically now defunct) that
was an FTP<->NFS gateway hack - very funny abuse of NFS. We now have podfuk
which is probably a great basis for doing this right.

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