From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-10T17:28:02+09:00
Subject: Re: 'borrow' Tcl's virtual file system

Hi,

In message "'borrow' Tcl's virtual file system"
    on 03/01/09, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
|
|I saw this in an early version of the 'Year in scripting languages' that 
|was sent out today and it sounds like a very good idea to me, perhaps we 
|should try to 'borrow' it:
|
|"The [Tcl]8.4 release includes a number of significant features, including
|
|   * new Virtual File System (VFS) layer that allows (in principle)
|     all desired filesystem activity to be diverted away from the
|     native operating system and to something else; drivers exist for
|     a number of underlying "access methods", including FTP, HTTP,
|     Metakit, WebDAV, etc. "
|
|Seems like something that wouldn't be too difficult to do with a series of 
|modules.  Any ideas?

I don't anything in detail about Tcl's VFS, but is open-uri in the RAA

  http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=open-uri

something close?

							matz.