Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Ted Wright wrote:
> > I was wondering if file URLs could be transparently handled using scp,
> > but it looks like they are not general enough.
>
>Well, a relative SCP path is relative to the CWD on the remote host
>(usually your home directory). What do you mean by "transparently
>handled"?

I was thinking that it would be nice if file URLs could somehow "automatically"
take advantage of scp if the OS supports it (hopefully without introducing any 
new OS specific code - while I'm dreaming).

But, the more I think about this, the less I like the idea of using something 
like scp or FTP that requires transferring the file before working on it (and 
transferring it back if I change it). For much of what I do, something more like
NFS would be better, because it makes the remote file appear local (so I would
not have to take any steps to transfer it back if I modified it). 

Does the specification for file URLs say that they are supposed to work like 
FTP, or NFS, or is it up the program using them to decide?

Ted