i am curious as to why you would want to mount(or link) an ftp site.
i am not being sarcastic here, but isnt the point of an ftp site so that you
can actually d/load the file to you local?
why do you want to mount(i understand what you mean, ijust want to know why)
>From: "MURRAY, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'Mursalin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Linux Newbie'"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: ftp client
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:02:38 +1000 (EST)
>
> > >> what do you mean mount a ftp directory ? you mean other
> > partion in the
> > >> /home/ftp/pub directory ? or to another directory ? say
> > >> another partition
> > >
> > >I think he wants to treat an ftp site as if it were a
> > directory. It would
> > be
> > >more a job for a symbolic link than a mount:
> > >
> > > ln -s -ftp ftp://ftp.download.com /links/download-dot-com
> > >
> >
> > u are right.
>
>I suppose what we are after is an OS that understands URLs. So you could
>
> grep < ftp://ftp.somesite.com/afile
>
>or
>
> cat < http://www.somesite.com/afile > file://home/me/copy-of-a-file
>
>of course, "file:/" would be the default protocol.
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