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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:34:30 +0000
From: George Coulouris <george@snork.capybara.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser
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I remember a http: device back on my Amiga that would make the network look
like a file, and allow any old program access to http. So, in the same way
you would view a local file, e.g.

multiview dh0:docs/foo.txt,

you could do

multiview http:foo.bar.com/foo.txt

URL formatting aside, this was a neat trick. Particularly with
datatype-aware programs like multiview, which effectively had plugins to
deal with html, gif, jpg and so forth.

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-- 
George Coulouris - http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~glc5/