From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3689d3c938c589e5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-23 14:34:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C4F3A73.DC433298@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Directory listings and path names References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 22:35:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 1011825309 66.75.151.160 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:35:09 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:35:09 PST Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19262 Date: 2002-01-23T22:35:09+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > The whole idea of directories and paths presumes a tree structure. The only reasonable way to split up a data structure that crosses administrative domain boundaries is via a tree structure. > URLs are more like unique names, where '/' is just another character. Errr, no. URLs are tree structured. > "a.com/b/c*.htm" is not meaningful as a URL (unless of course the server > wants to give "b/c*.htm" some meaning). It is, if you escape the "*". (Of course, you'll have a literal "*" in the URL then.) > Tree structured directories > date from the days of tree structured databases. They will eventually > disappear. I'm not holding my breath. ;-) -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. The opposite of always is sometimes. The opposite of never is sometimes.