Re: Internal Filename Representations (was Re: Summary of I/O related RFCs)

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:16:31AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> [cc'ed on internals as FYI]
> 
> > =item 36 (v1): Structured Internal Representation of Filenames
> 
> I think this should be discussed a good amount. I think URIs are cool,
> but too much trouble for simple stuff. I don't want to have to write
> "file:///etc/motd" everytime I want to address a file. Too cumbersome.

The (vague) idea wasn't that "everything shall be an URI".  It was
the other way round: "the representation should be generic enough so
that also URIs could be handled".  In other words: things like
the protocol, the port number, the username, the password, could
be part of a "file spec".

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