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diff --git a/hurd/translator/wishlist_2.mdwn b/hurd/translator/wishlist_2.mdwn index 77f39644..ab4d26ea 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/wishlist_2.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/wishlist_2.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ A translator which produces a directory of \*.wav files when you have an audio C This translator could be a sub-directory of the Audio\_cdfs translator and it would translate the \*.wav files into Ogg Vorbis/MP3 format. -## <a name="CDDB"> </a> CDDB +## <a name="CDDB"> CDDB </a> Of course it would be a lot nicer if the above two translators didn't name their files something worthless like track001.ogg. So we would want a translator which would hook up with a database on the web and produce meaningful file names. @@ -24,15 +24,7 @@ A cryptographic/steganographic seem like a nice match with the concept of user-l All of the empty space on your drive is now being wasted. Why not have a revision control translator which tracks changes to your documents? See also [this guy](http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976). And then you'd do something like `cd /time-machine/2003/sept/14/` to see what your system looked like on the 14th of septempber 2003. -## <a name="CVSFS"> </a> CVSFS - -See [cvsFS for Linux](http://cvsfs.sourceforge.net/). This provides a package which presents the CVS contents as mountable file system. It allows to view the versioned files as like they were ordinary files on a disk. There is also a possibility to check in/out some files for editing. A read-only version has been written by Stefan Siegl and is available at [Berlios](http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvsfs4hurd/cvsfs/). - -## <a name="tar_and_gzip"> tar and gzip </a> - -Rumor has it that they are on the way. Actually, a tar + gzip/bzip2 translator does exist (although it hasn't been used much...) : see [the Hurdextras project](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdextras/) on Savannah. - -## <a name="ROM"> </a> ROM +## <a name="ROM"> ROM </a> How about a translator which makes it look like you can write to read only media (like CDs), or change files which I don't have permission to change. This translator would make it seem like you could copy files to places where you normally couldn't. Think about combining this translator with the ftp translator and the tar and gzip translators. (cd /ftp/gnu.org/gnome.tar.gz/writes\_allowed; make install). It could be that unionfs does this very thing. @@ -88,7 +80,7 @@ Am I off my rocker, or does an IMAP/POP translator sound like a good idea? It wo *Definitely: Copy my email in there to send it.* -- [[ArneBab|community/weblogs/ArneBab]] -## <a name="UUEncode"> </a> UUEncode +## <a name="UUEncode"> UUEncode </a> How about a UUEncode translator for those places you can only store ASCII. Combine this with a NNTP translator and store your data in someone's Usenet archive. Or since, (as far as I know), there are no size limitations on file names in the Hurd, why not have a filesystem translator whose underlying store is a file name. (Now ls becomes cat). @@ -171,14 +163,10 @@ A [bridging](http://bridge.sourceforge.net/faq.html) translator could improve th Perhaps Linux's bridging code and [utilities](http://bridge.sourceforge.net/) can be ported (or glued in) or code from one of the BSDs. -## <a name="SSH_translator"> </a> SSH translator +## <a name="SSH_translator"> SSH translator </a> Presenting remote file systems through SSH similar to what gnome-vfs does. -## <a name="SMB_translator"> </a> SMB translator - -Presenting remote file systems through Samba similar to what gnome-vfs does. Guiseppe Scrivano has worked on this and smbfs is available at [hurdextras](http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/hurdextras/smbfs/). - ## <a name="Crontab_translator"> Crontab translator </a> Presenting a user's crontab in a filesystem where cron entries are files. |