Leo Korinth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had an idea of a freenet translator for a long time. [...] > My idea is that you would use the translator like the ftp translator > except when you cd to a directory you get the directory full of files > that matches the "search".
I actually had the same idea some time ago :) Searching won't work, however, as freenet does not currently support it (to download a file you have to know it's CHK (Content Hash Key: some sort of unique checksum) or it's KSK (??? Key: a more readable alias for CHKs), which you can get either through a seperately published index or by just using links in other freenet documents). What could be done is a translator that, as the ftp translator, let's you fetch files by simply copying them and, if possible with freenet, shows you all the content of your current datacache in a listing. Maybe it could also make use of indices to provide symbolic links (with sane names) to cached and/or uncached files and similiar things. > As it seams to take long time for me to install the hurd, and doing > programing for it is most a future dream, I hope someone will like the > idea. With the programming it's similiar here, though I hope to find time to install the Hurd on my (new) computer again sometime soon. > Finaly i would like to know if the idea is just idiotic or if it really > could be something. I came up with the same idea, but that unfortunately doesn't mean that it's not idiotic :) > On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, arun v wrote: > > Now i'm looking forward for some good projects in > > Hurd, preferrably related to translators. Can u give > > some good ideas? One other idea that I once had was that of a version-control translator, i.e. a translator that logs changes to files and provides ways of restoring them to an earlier state. (A nice thing to have the /etc dir in, for example.) And yet another idea: A ssh-translator that let's you handle files on other hosts (incl. copying them between the local and remote host) through ssh. This one would actually be pretty cool! Regards, Lars -- [ Lars Weber ]-------< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----[ GPG-ID: 1383B42E ] +++ fingerprint: 44B1 1D23 DD53 E6B2 4AAB 4C36 0323 9141 1383 B42E +++ [ Using GNU ]----< www.gnu.org | www.debian.org >---[ Running Debian ] _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
