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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-10-16 19:30:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-11-12 00:40:39 +0100 |
| commit | a4661b7733f84cceb0ef5bce3f9615493de1f7cf (patch) | |
| tree | 79a9da9134fb094e49f77a529ea6157d11c4dbf1 /hurd/translator/ftpfs.mdwn | |
| parent | ad5071bf6cfd5626eb3e03253e46d90dce54f68a (diff) | |
add translator/ftpfs page
* hurd/translator.mdwn: add a link to ftpfs
* hurd/translator/ftpfs.mdwn: document the fptfs translator with an
example.
Message-ID: <20241016233039.17856-11-jbranso@dismail.de>
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diff --git a/hurd/translator/ftpfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/ftpfs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ac04890c --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/ftpfs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +[[!toc]] + +The File Transfer Protocol is a old, simple, and insecure method of +sharing files between computers. The Hurd supports it via `ftpfs`. + + $ settrans gnu.org /hurd/ftpfs ftp://ftp.gnu.org + $ cat ftp\:/ftp.gnu.org/README | grep GNU | head -n 2 + This is ftp.gnu.org, the FTP server of the the GNU project. + gnu/ Contains GNU programs and documents that we develop for the GNU + +So it's actually pretty cool to use standard command line utilities to +search through a remote file. But it is slightly a hassle to set up +`ftpfs` by hand for each server like this. +With the Hurd's [[hostmux]] you can actually skip that first +settrans command, and type in any FTP server and automatically connect +to it. On my box, this just works: + + $ ls ~/ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ + +`~/ftp:` is already set up to re-route any path lookup to the correct +FTP server. You can set up `~/ftp:` on your Hurd OS via the +[[hostmux]] translator: + + $ settrans -c $HOME/ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / + +The [[translator primer|hurd/documentation/translator_primer]] shows +you how you can use ftpfs to mount a remote iso file and examine its +contents. |