> >> what do you mean mount a ftp directory ? you mean other
> partion in the
> >> /home/ftp/pub directory ? or to another directory ? say
> >> another partition
> >
> >I think he wants to treat an ftp site as if it were a
> directory. It would
> be
> >more a job for a symbolic link than a mount:
> >
> > ln -s -ftp ftp://ftp.download.com /links/download-dot-com
> >
>
> u are right.
I suppose what we are after is an OS that understands URLs. So you could
grep < ftp://ftp.somesite.com/afile
or
cat < http://www.somesite.com/afile > file://home/me/copy-of-a-file
of course, "file:/" would be the default protocol.
