>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The shell is only half of it. rcp, scp, rsync and the inliners are
> doing the file transfer.
rcp and scp are exceptions not usable for su, sudo, ....
As for the inline transfer, it's indeed using shell commands.
> Furthermore, The Package Still Known As Rcp is not itself a filesystem.
> It is a means of accessing other filesystems. I suppose
> you could call it a filesystem wrapper.
Oh, so NFS is not a filesystem ?
Compare the VFS (virtual filesystem interface that every filesystem in your
operating system has to implement in order to be known to the OS) with
the definition of Emacs' magic file handlers and you'll soon discover that
those magic file handlers *are* filesystems.
Of course, it's a lot more obvious when the Lisp engine is in the OS kernel
(c.f. Lisp machines) than when the Lisp machine is renamed Emacs and hosted
inside a Posix environment.
Stefan
