Size of changes file

Bruce O'Neel beoneel at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 2 14:00:13 UTC 1999


>At 10:07 AM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>	aStream := FileStream
>readOnlyFileNamed:'http://www.smalltalk.org/stuff.html'.
>
>Having both network API's and File API's is redundant. For that matter, the
>OS should just cope with url style filnames. You have exactly the same
>kinds of possible errors as when accessing a file on a normal file server.

I've done this for another package (read/writes FITS file, an astronomy 
format) and it's quite interesting the posibilities this opened up.

cheers

bruce





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