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From: daniel@world.std.com (Daniel Smith - you know, that West Coast one...)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: archfs -- a virtual file system based on comp.archives data
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.234703.17792@world.std.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 23:47:03 GMT
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	This sort of reminds me of something I recently posted to alt.sources
called "ls2dir".  It takes an ls-lR format file and spits mkdir and cat > file
commands to create a representation of the original ls-lR tree.  The files
created contain one line of data: the portion of the ls-lR line minus
the filename.  This makes it easy to browse around a "filesystem" and
perhaps a useful idea would be to combine it with archfs.  It would create a
neat tool where archive listing, ls-lR listings, (and possibly some intelligent
guesswork on paragraphs specifying ftp sites and file names?) could
be used as a basis for generating "go fetch this" commands (uucp, ftp,
or mail archive server).  Hmmm...perhaps a few specific scripts tied
together with a nice front end could make for a "one stop shopping
for files/packages" tool.  Just thinking out loud :-)  I'd post ls2dir
here (it's only ~25 lines of shell script) but I don't happen to have it at
this site (world.std.com)).  It's about 1-2 months old.

				Daniel
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dansmith@well.sf.ca.us .I must write this, or Island will take away my coffee.
Could we continue with the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing-Data:TNG