On 3/7/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:53:43PM -0600: > [snip] > > The advantage isn't to the guy writing a web browser. Its to all the other > > apps. If the network is now a filesystem, you can write to the network > > from any app that can write to a file. Emacs, vi, cat, etc would all be > > able to write to/read from the network. Basicly, your app would become > > network aware for 0 lines of code. > > Perhaps a workaround could be built with netcat and named pipes?
Isn't this (network is a file system) one of the major features of Plan 9 from Bell Labs? From the same people who brought you Unix, once upon a time. < http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html > carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
