Ceri writes:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:10:18AM -0400, Leo Bicknell said:
> >
> > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that
> > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with
> > the following two sorts of command lines:
> >
> > mutt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > traceroute http://www.ufp.org/
>
> Please don't do this.
> FreeBSD is not a web browser.
That's a pretty silly argument.
There are already several commands that are part of FreeBSD,
and use either URI syntax or something similar. E.g,
mount some.server:/usr/src /usr/src
scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file .
fetch http://some.server/file
Having a standard library that can pick apart such addresses
is going to make parsing easier, and it may also make the system
slightly easier to use (by enforcing a single syntax across all the
commands that require this sort of functionality). Whether it is a
reasonable use of developer time is a completely different matter.
FWIW, the Symbolics Lisp Machines had something similar to
this integrated at the file system layer - it was possible to access
(edit, even) files through FTP, NFS, ChaosNet (and other) protocols
without explicitly mounting file systems.
//Raymond.
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