> If you're really lazy and want to be able to do:
> telnet smtp://localhost
> I suggest you look into this relatively new invention called
> '/etc/services' and read some manual pages. You'll find you can do
> something quite similar, and much saner.
I'm quite sure that Mr. Sinz wasn't suggesting that telnet smtp://localhost
should do something useful. Nor do I consider his idea "lazy". I do think
that he was suggesting, and I concur, that there's no logical reason that
networked file access should be treated differently by user applications
than local file access.
I strongly suggest you read his post again, and think about how nice it is
for a moment that you can mount CODA, 9660, NFS, FFS, UFS, FAT, NTFS, SMBFS,
etc and have user-level programs access their data in exactly the same
manner.
This is not an LSD-induced 'turn freebsd into windows' idea, it's a very
simple extension of ideas that FreeBSD already has in place.
Kevin Way
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