RE: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005?

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

Open up Internet explorer and give it the following URL: file://C:\
You should see the directory of your C drive. I admit that file:// is ugly.
However, it should be ubiquitous.
Bob Leif

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]
On Behalf Of Larry Kilgallen
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:15 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: RE: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005?

In article <mailman.1040191621.25117.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Robert C.
Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:
> Yes. But it should NOT be part of the Ada standard. It should be a
> collection of application interfaces. Since most computers have =
> browsers,
> Internet paths may be close to a universal solution.

Huh ?

Browsers allow one to access items on the Internet, specifically that
subset of items that web servers choose to export.  There is not any
relationship necessary between items exported by web servers and any
file system.