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To: altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)
From: "Fred Swartz" <fred.swartz@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: a better ftp URL (local file comments)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Nov 1993 14:42:28 PST."
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 10:55:00 -0500
> From: altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)
> To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch, Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
>>f t p : / / [ user [ : passwd ] @ ] host [ : port ] [ @ type ] /
>
>I like the look of this. Putting the type specification after the / makes
>it look to much like it is part of the path.
I agree that the type shouldn't appear to be part of the path name,
but don't care especially where it goes.
>>3. John asks if "file": should be put into the spec.
...
I think we need something like "file" to reference local
items. Again, I don't care much which keyword or syntax
is used.
-- Fred (fred.swartz@merit.edu)