Date   : Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:44:39 +0100
From   : info@... (Sprow)
Subject: Master ethernet upgrade

In article <090713125503@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
> > Message-ID: <50791895c3info@...>
>  
> Sprow wrote:
> > > F=OPENOUT("-http-sprow.co.uk:80") shirley?
> > 
> > Probably not, because the -http- part would be looked up by the filing
> > system handler in the MOS. The table is of limited size 
>  
> Maybe put all the protocols within
> a single filing system and use the protocol name as the first
> component, something like:
>  
> F=OPENIN("-thing-:protocol:host.path")
> eg:
> F=OPENIN("-thing-:http:mdfs.net:Docs.Comp.index")

In article <50791895c3info@...>,
   Sprow <info@...> wrote:
> Maybe F=OPENOUT("-wan-sprow.co.uk:80")?

Seems remarkably like my earlier suggestion.
Turns out the MOS doesn't actually care much about the path components, so
the process of mapping dots to slashes is only one of consistency with other
filing systems. It would be perfectly possible to have

  F=OPENIN("-thing-http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/index")

and just have "ThingFS" parse the rest,
Sprow.