kifer(a)cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) writes:
> Well, it still requires the absolute path name (this is why I
> still use EFS!) However, nothing precludes you from extending the
> syntax by allowing ~ and by assuming that if the file name doesn't
> start with / then it is a relative file name.
Omitting the "/" to give "ftp://user@machinepath" does not really
make
sense :-)
Sorry, I didn't think it through. But some sort of syntax can be adopted to
indicate relative pathnames, e.g., ftp://user@machine/:path
(ftp://user@machine/~user/path is already common).
--michael