Re: URL hacks for efs

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Tue, 13 Dec 1994 16:56:25 +0000


Rat writes:

> Something on this came up in gnu.emacs.help, a request for hacks to
> ange-ftp to make it understand URLs like
> 	ftp://node.domain/directory/path/to/file.foo
> rather than
> 	/ftp@node.domain:/directory/path/to/file.foo

> Just a thought; it might be something to consider adding.

This request has come up many times in the last 2 years.  We've
thought about it each time it has arisen.  The current thinking is
that packages like w3 are probably a better way of dealing with this
type of filename syntax.  I personally use a key binding for
w3-fetch to read the URL and then eventually call efs.

I welcome postings from all the testing team about this issue.

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