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Message-id: <199306251729.AA28502@library.ucsf.edu>
From: David.Martin@library.ucsf.edu (David C. Martin)
Organization: UCSF Center for Knowledge Management
Email: dcmartin@ckm.ucsf.edu or uunet!dcmartin
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To: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Cc: www-talk@library.ucsf.edu
Subject: Accessing URL's
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 10:25:48 MDT
Sender: David.Martin@library.ucsf.edu

I would like to propose the following extension (not too difficult, but
I couldn't find all the places to modify):

Allow Xmosaic to read symbolic links as URL's

That is, allow files like the following:

mosaic-docs -> http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/mosaic-docs
cave.html -> http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/evl/cave/cave.html

This would simplify the storage of bookmarks and allow a user to
organize their local hierarchy appropriate to the information resources
that they had identified, e.g. collecting URL's about a specific subject
or concept area.

I did an initial hack to the code to allow the interpretation of
symbolic links, but would like to see this extension permeated
throughout the code (i.e. saving, etc..)

dcm