Chaim Frenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about native extensions? I think VMS (and the old TOPS10) had versions
as part of the file name.
Do URIs have this capablity?
And what does a read of a directory return? URIs or Native?
Relative URIs I assume - what are (hopefully) indistinguishable
Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Graham Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
How about this?
open '/etc/passwd'; # file
OK
open '/usr/local/bin/'; # directory (note the trailing
How about this?
open '/etc/passwd'; # file
open '/usr/local/bin/'; # directory (note the trailing '/')
open 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/'; # ftp
open 'http://www.yahoo.com/'; # http
open 'ldap://ldap.bigfoot.com/';# ldap
I think
This is nutso... shall we open-ssh and open-telnet and
open-any_protocal_under_the_sun in the core?
Well, just because the hooks are there doesn't mean all the member
modules have to be in core. The idea would be, as Tom Hughes suggests:
That is if the core provides a way for modules to
Graham Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
How about this?
open '/etc/passwd'; # file
OK
open '/usr/local/bin/'; # directory (note the trailing '/')
Portability, not all platforms use /
Allowing
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Graham Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
open 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/'; # ftp
What user/password does it use
Whatever you put in the URL with anonymous as default.
open
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Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The suggested syntax does not necessarily conflict with the
above - the core might spot the xxx: scheme and try and load
an xxx.pm from some well known path and hand off the open to
that module.
To follow up to
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Graham Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
How about this?
open '/etc/passwd'; # file
OK
open '/usr/local/bin/'; # directory
