httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Justin Langer
hai I have seen the ftpfs that is really a nice idea and something which people in *nix world can't even think of. I also see that there is a idea of httpfs in the same line. What purpose will it serve? What can be its possible application? Will people want a filesystem interface to a site,

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Sean Neakums
begin Justin Langer quotation: I have seen the ftpfs that is really a nice idea and something which people in *nix world can't even think of. I also see that there is a idea of httpfs in the same line. What purpose will it serve? What can be its possible application? A solid httpfs

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:35:46AM -0800, Justin Langer wrote: What can be its possible application? You could access the web with all tools, including your shell. Instead running wget, you could just try to use cp, for example. Will people want a filesystem interface to a site, they are

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Josh Hansen
Is it possible that this could become a part of a more all-encompassing Virtual FileSystem implementation like that seen in KDE? (KIOSlaves, etc.) Allowing any application to view data using any protocol is very powerful idea, used well in KDE and I believe becoming implemented in GNOME.

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:56:23PM -0700, Josh Hansen wrote: Is it possible that this could become a part of a more all-encompassing Virtual FileSystem implementation like that seen in KDE? (KIOSlaves, etc.) Allowing any application to view data using any protocol is very powerful idea,

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Josh Hansen
Excellent! I'm glad to hear it, sine that's how it should be! :-) Thanks Marcus, - Josh

HD update scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Amble
I just installed the hurd from the H2 CDs and I could not execute initial.sh, developer.sh, or gui.sh because they appear to the system as binary files. Has anyone else seen this or have a work-around. Thanks in advance, Robert Amble

Re: HD update scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Robert Amble wrote: I just installed the hurd from the H2 CDs and I could not execute initial.sh, developer.sh, or gui.sh because they appear to the system as binary files. Has anyone else seen this or have a work-around. I have no other reports of this problem. These

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Re: HD update scripts

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Amble
Philip, I ran the bash scripts ok from H1, but when I tried to do this on H2 I found out they are not executable. When viewed by less or in vi they show up as binary data. If I mount the CD on my linux system and use the 'file' command on them it says they are data. Here is the 'less' output