Re: About the Gnome Help browser

[Russell Nelson <nelson crynwr com>]

J. Patrick Narkinsky writes:
 > Is there anything in the source for VFS right now?  What are the
 > status/plans on this?  For my tastes, I would like to see a VFS that could
 > support the following syntaxes (transparent to the application) at least:
 > 	Plain Old Filenames
 > 	file:// -- Intuitively obvious to the Casual Observer
 > 	ftp:// -- IOTTCO
 > 	http:// -- IOTTCO
 > 	config://

In theory, the thing before the colon is the transfer protocol.  You
were fine up to http:.  And part of the transfer protocol is the
document type.  And there's a mapping from the rightmost thing in the
name into the document type, and another mapping from document type
into helper application.

Yes, that means that info: and man: go against the grain.

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